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Txistu ensemble in the streets of Leioa Alboka players and a tambourine man playing a tune together Txalaparta players in a festival. Basque traditional music is a product of the region's historic development and strategic geographical position on the Atlantic arch at a crossroads between mountains (Cantabrian mountain range, Pyrenees) and plains (Ebro basin), ocean and inland, European ...
kilin-kilin — swords fighting sound. kil-kil — cricket sound. kinki-kanka — trudge. kinkili-mankala — keep up with difficulty. kinkinka — jumping or rolling on the ends of a wooden log that rolls down the hill. kirik — hide-and-seek game. kirka-kirka — in bites; kir-kir — joy, jubilation. kirri-karra — frog sound, croak.
The term Grand ballabile is used if nearly all participants (including principal characters) of a particular scene in a full-length work perform a large-scale dance. bar, or measure unit of music containing a number of beats as indicated by a time signature; also the vertical bar enclosing it barbaro
A Basque noun-phrase is inflected in 17 different ways for case, multiplied by four ways for its definiteness and number (indefinite, definite singular, definite plural, and definite close plural: euskaldun [Basque speaker], euskalduna [the Basque speaker, a Basque speaker], euskaldunak [Basque speakers, the Basque speakers], and euskaldunok ...
The zortziko is a dance rhythm that originates in the Basque Country.It is also used as an accompaniment rhythm for vocal melodies, such as "Gernikako arbola", the unofficial anthem of the Basques, composed in 1853 by José María Iparraguirre (Laborde 2001).
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Music from the Basque Country nowadays caters to almost all the tastes of music, with a wide range of music being played in Basque, from choral music (Oldarra in Biarritz) to elaborate music bands (e.g. Bidaia) to ska or hardcore trends, while it is much praised lately for the fine bare voices that have arisen with the likes of Maddi Oihenart ...
The kirikoketa (Basque pronunciation: [kiˈɾikoketa] or [kiɾikoˈketa]) is a specialized Basque music wooden device akin to the txalaparta and closely related to working activities. [1] It is classified as an idiophone (a percussion instrument). It has lately caught on with cultural circles from the Basque Country at a local level.