Room music

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Stubenmusi (Bavarian Stub'nmusi , Austrian Stubenmusi ) is a term that is often used in the Alpine region for small, concert-based folk music ensembles .

history

In a standard work on alpine folk music it says: “Often the desire to make music only brings two players together: in the unfavorable season on Sunday afternoons in the room, on nice days in the evening in front of the house or up on the alpine pasture Use of two identical instruments: violins , side pipes, flugelhorns and ocarinas . ”(Karl M. Klier, 1956).

But this is not yet room music in the narrower sense. The Salzburg musician Tobi Reiser is considered to be the inventor . (However, Wastl Fanderl has already made music in a similar way with his “Stelzenberger Hausmusik” since around 1930.) The room music corresponds to Reiser's ideas from the 1950s. Although this style represents a completely new development, today, less than sixty years after its creation, it is often considered to be the most original kind of Alpine folk music .

occupation

The original line-up of the “Tobi Reiser Quintett”, founded in 1953, consists exclusively of stringed instruments : zither , guitar , harp , double bass and the chromatic Salzburg dulcimer developed by Reiser . Three of them are pure plucked instruments ; Reiser's double bass was also plucked and not bowed. This became the model for many folk music groups in Austria and Bavaria.

What was new about it was not only the exclusive use of stringed instruments, the melody guidance through the dulcimer and playing the melody on guitars was also new. Both instruments were used almost exclusively as accompanying instruments in Alpine folk music before Reiser.

Style of play

Due to the instrumentation and the goal in the name of making music in the living room, in smaller rooms, the music is played more quietly, in concert, as a contrast to older dance music, which had to be played loudly to drown out the noise level of the dancers.

Today other instruments are also used in room music, such as the Styrian harmonica , accordion and violins . These, however, are subordinate to the concertante, rather quiet overall sound.

groups

Since the 1960s, the term room music or similar-sounding dialect expressions has been used as part of the group name of relevant ensembles by prefixing it with a geographical name or, more rarely, a family name, e.g. B. "Leitzachtaler Stub'nmusi" etc.

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