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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 ...
The translation needs certain explanations from the original Basque words: "Agur" is a Basque word that we can translate into English both as "hail" and as "farewell". "Jaunak" in the context of the song means gentlemen, sirs, people of certain social stature, someone who deserves certain courtesy.
Music in History: The Evolution of an Art. New York: American Book Company. Ritchie, Fiona (2004). The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Celtic Music. New York: Berkley Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-399-53071-5. Nettl, Bruno (1965). Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. OCLC 265458368.
In 1970 the group presented the show Baga biga higa sentikaria, a proposal that would represent a significant change, both aesthetically and musically, in the new Basque song. In 1971 Benito Lertxundi released an album with the title "Ez dok amairu" which included the well-known songs "Zenbat Gera" and "Urak dakarrena".
Bertsolaritza [berˈts̺olaɾits̻a] or bertsolarism is the art of singing improvised songs in Basque according to various melodies and rhyming patterns. Bertsos can be composed at a variety of occasions but are performed generally by one or various bertsolaris onstage in an event arranged for the purpose or as a sideshow, in homage ceremonies, in benefit lunches and suppers, with friends or ...
Find a mix of modern and traditional religious Christmas songs to play on the holiday. ... it actually got its start as a Basque folk carol in the 13th or 14th century. It was inspired by the ...
Oskorri is a folk band formed in the Western Basque Country in 1971. It is one of the most renowned folk groups in the Basque Country, with songs such as Euskal Herrian Euskaraz becoming popular in the region. [1] Their first album was based on Gabriel Aresti poems. The group's name in Basque means "red sunset".
The style of Spanish popular songs of the time is presumed to have been heavily influenced by the music of the Moors, especially in the south, but as much of the country still spoke various Latin dialects while under Moorish rule (known today as the Mozarabic) earlier musical folk styles from the pre-Islamic period continued in the countryside ...