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Basque music refers to the music made in the Basque Country, reflecting traits related to its society/tradition, and devised by people from that territory.While traditionally more closely associated to rural based and Basque language music, the growing diversification of its production during the last decades has tipped the scale in favour of a broad definition.
Some theories hold that it is in 5/4 time, "like the Rueda except that the 2nd and 4th beats are almost always dotted notes" (Kennedy 2006), or that it actually is a double compound meter combining an irregular binary (5/16 divided 2 + 3) and an irregular ternary (8/16 divided 2 + 3 + 3), creating an ostinato pattern of "irregular bichrome ...
Basque cuisine, the cuisine of the Basque people; Basque music, the music of the Basque people; Basque conflict; List of people from the Basque Country; Port aux Basques (Port Basque), Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; a town district; All pages with titles beginning with Basque ; All pages with titles containing Basque; Bask ...
The Basques (Basque: Euskaldunak) are an indigenous ethno-linguistic group mainly inhabiting the Basque Country (adjacent areas of Spain and France).Their history is therefore interconnected with Spanish and French history and also with the history of many other past and present countries, particularly in Europe and the Americas, where a large number of their descendants keep attached to their ...
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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 ...
The Basque Wikipedia (Basque: Euskarazko Wikipedia [1] or Euskal Wikipedia) is the Basque language edition of Wikipedia. Founded on 6 December 2001, [ 2 ] although its main page was created in November 2003, it reached 58,124 articles by 19 August 2010, making it the 45th-largest Wikipedia. [ 3 ]
The English word Basque may be pronounced / b ɑː s k / or / b æ s k / and derives from the French Basque (French:), itself derived from Gascon Basco (pronounced ), cognate with Spanish Vasco (pronounced ). Those, in turn, come from Latin Vascō (pronounced ; plural Vascōnēs—see history section below).