Music of Indonesia The music of Indonesia demonstrates its cultural diversity, the local musical creativity, as well as subsequent foreign musical influences that shaped contemporary music scenes of Indonesia. Nearly thousands of Indonesian islands having its own cultural and artistic history and character.[1] This results in hundreds of different forms of music, which often accompanies by dance and theatre. Traditional regional musics and songs of Indonesia natively compromises of strong beat and harmony type musics with strong influence of California and Malay classical music. Musical instruments[edit] Balinese gamelan performance. SambaSunda music performance, featuring traditional Sundanese music instruments such as kecapi, suling, and kendang. Gamelan[edit] The most popular and famous form of Indonesian music is probably gamelan, an ensemble of tuned percussion instruments that include metallophones, drums, gongs and spike fiddles along with bamboo flutes. Kecapi suling[edit] Angklung[edit] Kulintang[edit]
Listen to the Oldest Song in the World: A Sumerian Hymn Written 3,400 Years Ago In the early 1950s, archaeologists unearthed several clay tablets from the 14th century B.C.E.. Found, WFMU tells us, “in the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit,” these tablets “contained cuneiform signs in the hurrian language," which turned out to be the oldest known piece of music ever discovered, a 3,400 year-old cult hymn. Anne Draffkorn Kilmer, professor of Assyriology at the University of California, produced the interpretation above in 1972. (She describes how she arrived at the musical notation—in some technical detail—in this interview.) The piece, writes Richard Fink in a 1988 Archeologia Musicalis article, confirms a theory that “the 7-note diatonic scale as well as harmony existed 3,400 years ago.” Kilmer and Crocker published an audio book on vinyl (now on CD) called Sounds From Silence in which they narrate information about ancient Near Eastern music, and, in an accompanying booklet, present photographs and translations of the tablets from which the song above comes.
About Japanese Music The earliest forms of music were drums and flute music accompanying the kagura shrine dances. From the 6th century on, music came from Korean and Chinese courts and monasteries and was performed at the Japanese court under the generic name gagaku (court music). The 8th-century court established a music bureau (gagakuryo) to be in charge of musical duties, both ritual and entertainment. Meanwhile with the introduction of Buddhism to Japan in the 6th century, Buddhist rites and liturgical chants gave rise to the development of a great variety of bells, gongs, wooden clappers, plaques, percussion tubes, and rattles, many of which found their way also into kabuki music of the Edo period (1600-1868). As Japan changed from a court to a military-dominated culture in the 12th century, theatrical genres of music started to develop. Japanese musical instruments are dominated by plucked string, flute and percussion instruments.
What is celtic music? The term 'celtic music' is a rather loose one; for the purpose of Ceolas, it covers the traditional music of the celtic countries - Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany (in France), Galicia (in Spain) and areas which have come under their influence, such as the US and the maritime provinces of Canada, as well as some newer music based on the tradition from these countries. The term is sometimes controversial. For starters, the Celts as an identifiable race are long gone, there are strong differences between traditional music in the different countries, and many of the similarities are due to more recent influences. There is also the notion that 'celtic' implies celtic mysticism and a particular influence in new-age music which has little to do with traditional music. In general, the strongest connections are between Irish and Scottish tradition and it is on these that Ceolas concentrates. The Celtic Music Regions More information from the Irish Traditional Music Archive
Différences hommes femmes : reportage pour comprendre ! Les comportements des hommes et des femmes est perçu comme étant très différent, notamment en matière de séduction, dans l’approche d’une relation de couple, dans le comportement sexué vis à vis de l’autre, etc… Est-ce que ces différences hommes/femmes auraient une origine biologique liée aux chromosomes X et Y ? Est-ce que la capacité intellectuelle des hommes et des femmes est la même ou au contraire serait-elle la cause de ces différences comportementales ? Le reportage qui suit explore différentes pistes pour tenter de comprendre en quoi les femmes et les hommes ont des approches différentes au quotidien dans leur relation, mais aussi simplement dans la répartition et la préférences des tâches des uns et des autres. De nombreuses pistes sont ainsi explorées pour tenter de comprendre ce qui participe à la construction d’une identité sexuelle : Les hommes et les femmes ont souvent du mal à s’entendre.
Traditional Japanese Music There are several types of traditional, Japanese music (hogaku). Some of the most important ones are listed below: Gagaku: Ancient court music from China and Korea. It is the oldest type of Japanese, traditional music. Biwagaku: Music played with the Biwa, a kind of guitar with four strings.
What is Jewish Music? Jewish music stems from ancient prayer chants of the Levant some 3000 years ago. The musical notation that developed and that we find in the bible today is one of the most ancient forms of notated music, and yet it is still in current practice all over the world today. Jewish music has been constantly adapting to new conditions and yet retaining its identity in many widely differing ethnic, social and religious environments. Through its daughter religions, the music of Judaism is one of the fundamental elements in the understanding of the sacred and secular traditions of Europe and the Near East, first having influenced, and then having been influenced by, the music of Christian and Islamic cultures. Ashkenazi Music (Klezmer) Ashkenazi refers to the Jews who settled in the Rhineland of South West Germany and Northern France from about the third century CE. Sephardi Music Israeli Music Synagogue Music Suppressed Music Western Classical Music Sources: Jewish Music Institute
Banques de textes écrits et sonores Ces banques de documents écrits ou sonores contiennent des textes et des livres dont les droits sont libérés pour usage en milieu scolaire. Notez que les nombreux textes répertoriés sur ces sites ne peut-être pas tous pertinents pour vos élèves. Carrefour éducation ne les a pas tous évalué selon le critère de l'âge. Pour vous aider nous avons identifié avec une icône la langue du site : pour le français et pour l'anglais. ABU : la bibliothèque universelle Ce site donne libre accès au texte intégral de 288 œuvres littéraires francophones, produites par des auteurs variés ayant marqué le 19e siècle. ABU est l'une des plus anciennes bibliothèques numériques d'ouvrages en langue française. Audiocité.net Écoutez un roman, une nouvelle, un poème d'auteur classique ou contemporain. Bibliothèque du Congrès américain Ce site en anglais de la Bibliothèque du Congrès américain offre une imposante banque de documents photo, audio et écrits. Bibliothèque électronique du Québec Books Should Be Free Feedbooks