Alpine folk music

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As Alpine folk music predominantly in German is Alpine countries of Bavaria , Austria , Switzerland and South Tyrol and neighboring areas such as Baden-Wuerttemberg traditional folk music called, which is a unique musical genre. Musically, it does not differ from traditional , also Alpine, Slovene-speaking folk music.

Tradition, tradition

Alpine folk music developed through the oral tradition that has always been common among the common people . Namely “transmission of musical knowledge, skills, practices and 'compositions' over generations, decades and perhaps centuries” (Prof. Gerlinde Haid ). The oldest surviving cattle series comes from the Appenzellerland and was recorded in 1545 .

Mark

Alpine folk music is a certain style of music that originated or was handed down in the predominantly German-speaking Alpine regions. Recognizable it is, inter alia, on the shape of the melody, often up predominantly of chords (Brechungsmelodik), decompositions of Dur - triads is, the "up and down jumping as the Alps mountains", and on the parallel two-part .

Written tradition

The previously common non-writing tradition requires several properties, including the improvisation- based formation of variants . There are innumerable varieties of each piece and short shapes are favored. Repetitions and simple harmonies are characteristics of alpine folk music. Mostly are major keys used. Alpine folk music is usually laid out in two parts, often consisting of the main voice and the upper voice , a third higher. This overvoice can also be octaved down, a sixth lower than the main voice. A tenor part (third part) can be added, but is not required. The bass voice is often limited to functional basses and fundamental tones. The polyphonic free play of several instruments , free accompaniment and polyphonic free singing is facilitated by using simple harmony schemes. The harmony scheme often only consists of dominant and tonic with rare excursions into subdominant and double dominant . The popular music-making "aus'n Huat", that is, free interaction, is only made possible by such generally recognized principles.

Dance music

Traditionally, instrumental folk music was mainly dance music , interpreted by dance musicians , for example in Austrian folk dance . Today it is often performed as room music , without any dance intention. If the room music is well played, the dance music character remains noticeable.

Radio and television broadcasts with traditional folk music (selection)

In Austrian and Bavarian folk music broadcasts, mostly cross-border music is offered because the songs are largely the same. The various state programs of the now fully regionalized broadcasting chain Ö2 offer a wide variety of folk music programs, which are mainly broadcast in the evening program. In Switzerland, you can listen to daily folk music broadcasts on SRF Musikwelle and on the private broadcasters Radio Eviva and Radio Tell .

See also

literature

  • Thomas Nussbaumer (ed.): The new in folk music of the Alps. From "New Folk Music" and other innovative developments , Wagner University Publishing House, in collaboration with the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, Innsbruck 2014. ISBN 978-3-7030-0828-3 .

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