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The Basque are an ethnic group living in parts of France and Spain, with the majority in the latter country. Their original ancestry is almost completely unrelated to the ones of their immediate neighbors, and their origins are unknown. Trikitrixa is the most widespread and well-known form of Basque folk music, though there are also singer-songwriter and choir traditions.

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Alboka - Musicians - Trikitrixa - Txistu
Euskadi, or Basque Country, is home to a lively style of folk music called trikitrixa , based on a diatonic accordion . Kepa Junkera and Joseba Tapia are probably the most famous performers of trikitrixa. There has been influences of Tex-Mex artists like Flaco Jiménez .

Other Basque instruments include the alboka , a difficult wind instrument made with horns, the txalaparta wooden beams and the txistu (similar to a tin whistle).

There is also a tradition of choral music, like the Orfeón Donostiarra and Mocedades .

Basque artists singing in Spanish have a wider market sometimes reaching Spanish America, examples are Luis Mariano , La oreja de Van Gogh and Duncan Dhu . The French Basques have produced their own stars, including the choir Oldarra from Biarritz and the operatic singer Benat Achiary .

Other Basque artists singing in Basque include Oskorri , Negu Gorriak, Benito Lertxundi , Mikel Laboa, Fermin Muguruza and Azala .

1 Txistu

The txistu is a kind of flute that has become a symbol for the Basque people. It is a three-holed flute that can be played with one hand, leaving the other free to play a percussion instrument. In the 18th century17th century 18th century 19th century more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701- 1800; however, historians will sometimes specifically refer to the 18th Century as 1715- 89,, the txistu was appropriated by the Count of Penaflorida and his Basque Illustration cultural revival, and became a part of Basque aspirations into the nobility. The instrument was modified to give it a range of two octaveIntervals : For the numerical computation software, see GNU Octave. In music, an octave (sometimes abbreviated 8ve or 8va is the interval between one musical note and another with half or double the frequency. For example, if one note is pitched at 400 Hzs and a larger version called the silbote was created to accompany polyphonicPolyphony is a musical texture consisting of several independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice ( monophony) or music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords ( homophony). The term is usually used in reference to mus compositions.

Rural txistu musicians continued their own traditions, while the urban txistularis formed schools to teach the instrument.

The oldest txistu melodiesIn music, a melody is a series of linear events or a succession, not a simultaneity as in a chord. However, this succession must contain change of some kind and be perceived as a single entity (possibly gestalt) to be called a melody. Most specifically th are characterized by a G major mode with a natural F, which is the same as the seventh mode in Gregorian chanting. More recently-composed songs are still in G major, but in either natural or sharp F or, more rarely, C. There are exceptions, however, in major F melodies with natural B.

The Association of Txistularies in the Basque Country was formed in 1927Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 See also 1927 in aviation 1927 in film 1927 in literature 1927 in mu to promote txistularis. The organization has continued its activities to the present, except for an interruption during the Franco dictatorship.



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