Talk:Music
Loosely related, I've had a number of minor incidents of breis occassionally humming or singing snatches of local traditional music. When I'm being lazy, this is me qouting folk songs, but without digging out logs for _exact_ qoutes, I know I've also tried to establish a generally non-western musical sentiment. (Common use of arhythmic melodies, favoring minor keys and lower octaves, some use of atonal notes.) Not quite sure how to build that into more detail though, since it is largely a 'came up with randomly for flavor' thing, for me.
Further supposition - Yuriban music is primarily based on vocals, drums, and woodwinds. It's noted that the Moon Thrushes sound like a wood flute, so that would presumably be a native insturment, and flutes and simpler reed woodwinds in general seem logical to have around. --breisleach 04:10, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Further @_(%$#%@# notes for myself for when I try and recover what I have accidentally closed, dammit. Vocals -- Prominent, note unusual effects by native species. Drums -- Materials, similarities (Timpani, frame drum, djembe). Other percussion -- Chimes, wood, metal, "crystal" (lead glass). Woodwinds -- flutes, wood, bamboo, transverse and end-blown, bone rarely. Reed instruments popular, Chalumeau analogy, hichiriki, triple bore (two melody, one drone). Stringed -- rare, two varieties, one bridged, three string, one harp like, nine string, strings alwas silk. --breisleach 02:31, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
I really think it should be mentioned somewhere that the three-piped reed instrument mentioned in the text takes more lung capacity to play than what most people can muster without extensive practice. In a band, there are usually two shawns/rauschpfeife/chameau because it's impossible to play more than 30 seconds on those instrument without taking a break, and that should apply doubly to a three-piped version of those. Further, They are often accompanied only by drums since a flute becomes absolutely worthless beside an instrument like that without electricity to enhance its sound, and no one will want to stand less than 12 feet away when they play. :) /Invi-kun
- Well, most woodwinds take a fair bit of practice to develop the lung capacity to use them well, but it is apparently possible -- I wouldn't even dreamed of having one if I hadn't stumbled over wikipedia entry for the Launeddas. As it is, it's already noted that they require mastery of circular breathing, which is a fairly advanced technique for dealing with exactly that issue; to my feeling, it'd be covered already.
- The complications of volume/overpowering nature is worth working in, and I'll think of a way to phrase it when it's not quite so late and my brain is less fried. --breisleach 09:51, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
- Well, sure, but "and lungs like a horse" isn't very encyclopaedic, and it... honestly seems kind of a gimme, to tell you the truth. --Rae 09:56, 1 February 2007 (UTC)