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O Berro Seco
''O Berro Seco'' ''(The Dry Shriek)'' is the second album by Milladoiro, released in 1980. Like the group's first album, it includes an inscription on the inside cover in the Galician language: :Saturnino Cuiñas foi figura moi importante dentro do movimento cultural galego, home que nunca rexeitou do noso idioma, débense á súa laboura de folklorista moitas das pezas que compoñen o que hoxe en día chamamos música tradicional; traballador en tódolos eidos que tiveron o pobo como fin, foi tamen o inventor dunha fermosa tradicion. :Na capela da Santa Cruz na parroquia de Cesullas, a saída da misa os homes agachados collíanse das mans e do tempo que as suas figuras erguíanse, as voces xuntábanse nun berro que pouco iba medrando deica rematar nun solo aturuxo rachado de súpeto pola orden de Saturnino. Iste berro que simbolizaba a unión de moitos homes nun mismo esforzo recibeu como bautizo o nome de :O BERRO :: SECO which roughly translates to :Saturnino Cuiñas was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milladoiro
Milladoiro is a music band from Galicia. Often compared to the Chieftains, it is among the world's top Celtic music groups. Biography In 1978, Rodrigo Romaní and Antón Seoane released an album named "Milladoiro", on which they were joined by Xosé V. Ferreirós, then credited as a guest artist. The album received a critic's award the same year. Ferreirós, along with Nando Casal and Moncho García Rei, from his group Faíscas do Xiabre, invited Romaní and Seoane as guests in their next album. The fusion of the two groups, with the addition of the flautist Xosé A. Méndez and the violinist Laura Quintillán, constituted the foundation of Milladoiro, which swept the Galician musical scene of the 20th century. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the band, a compilation album, ''XXV'', was released in 2005. In 2006, Chris Thile covered their song "O Santo De Polvora" on his album ''How to Grow a Woman from the Ground''. Line-up Founding members * Rodrigo Romaní: h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celtic Music
Celtic music is a broad grouping of music genres that evolved out of the folk music traditions of the Celtic people of Northwestern Europe. It refers to both orally-transmitted traditional music and recorded music and the styles vary considerably to include everything from traditional music to a wide range of hybrids. Description and definition ''Celtic music'' means two things mainly. First, it is the music of the people that identify themselves as Celts. Secondly, it refers to whatever qualities may be unique to the music of the Celtic nations. Many notable Celtic musicians such as Alan Stivell and Paddy Moloney claim that the different Celtic music genres have a lot in common. These following melodic practices may be used widely across the different variants of Celtic Music: *It is common for the melodic line to move up and down the primary chords in many Celtic songs. There are a number of possible reasons for this: **''Melodic variation'' can be easily introduced. Mel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Galicia De Maeloc
Milladoiro is a music band from Galicia. Often compared to the Chieftains, it is among the world's top Celtic music groups. Biography In 1978, Rodrigo Romaní and Antón Seoane released an album named "Milladoiro", on which they were joined by Xosé V. Ferreirós, then credited as a guest artist. The album received a critic's award the same year. Ferreirós, along with Nando Casal and Moncho García Rei, from his group Faíscas do Xiabre, invited Romaní and Seoane as guests in their next album. The fusion of the two groups, with the addition of the flautist Xosé A. Méndez and the violinist Laura Quintillán, constituted the foundation of Milladoiro, which swept the Galician musical scene of the 20th century. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the band, a compilation album, ''XXV'', was released in 2005. In 2006, Chris Thile covered their song "O Santo De Polvora" on his album ''How to Grow a Woman from the Ground''. Line-up Founding members * Rodrigo Romaní: h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milladoiro 3
Milladoiro is a music band from Galicia. Often compared to the Chieftains, it is among the world's top Celtic music groups. Biography In 1978, Rodrigo Romaní and Antón Seoane released an album named "Milladoiro", on which they were joined by Xosé V. Ferreirós, then credited as a guest artist. The album received a critic's award the same year. Ferreirós, along with Nando Casal and Moncho García Rei, from his group Faíscas do Xiabre, invited Romaní and Seoane as guests in their next album. The fusion of the two groups, with the addition of the flautist Xosé A. Méndez and the violinist Laura Quintillán, constituted the foundation of Milladoiro, which swept the Galician musical scene of the 20th century. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the band, a compilation album, ''XXV'', was released in 2005. In 2006, Chris Thile covered their song "O Santo De Polvora" on his album ''How to Grow a Woman from the Ground''. Line-up Founding members * Rodrigo Romaní: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ululation
Ululation (), , is a long, wavering, high-pitched vocal sound resembling a howl with a trilling quality. It is produced by emitting a high pitched loud voice accompanied with a rapid back and forth movement of the tongue and the uvula The palatine uvula, usually referred to as simply the uvula, is a conic projection from the back edge of the middle of the soft palate, composed of connective tissue containing a number of racemose glands, and some muscular fibers. It also conta .... Around the world Ululation is practiced either alone or as part of certain styles of singing, on various occasions of communal ritual events (like weddings) used to express strong emotion. Ululation is practised in all parts of Africa; the Middle East; as well and it is practiced as far east as Central and South Asia, including Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Bengal, Odisha, and Assam in India, and Sri Lanka. It is also practiced in a few places in Europe, like Cyprus, and among the diaspora community originat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muiñeira
The muiñeira ( Galician: ''muiñeira'', Castilian: ''muñeira'') is a traditional dance and musical genre of Galicia (Spain). It is distinguished mainly by its expressive and lively tempo, played usually in , although some variants are performed in other time signatures. There are also variant types of muiñeira which remain in the tempo of but which displace the accent in different ways. Muiñeira is associated with traditional choreographic schemes and the associated instrumentation is a form of bagpipe known as a gaita. It is subject to highly varied interpretation in differing local traditions. According to "Galicia-The Spanish Cousins", an article on Roots World, muiñeira is the Galician "equivalent" of a jig, which is consistent with the time signature of . The word "muiñeira" (the same pronunciation in Portuguese, but spelled "moinheira") means literally both millstone and a mill landlady (or the miller's wife, if a man). Galician music is classified as part of Celt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polka
Polka is a dance and genre of dance music originating in nineteenth-century Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic. Though associated with Czech culture, polka is popular throughout Europe and the Americas. History Etymology The term ''polka'' referring to the dance is derived from the Czech word ''Polka'' meaning "Polish woman" (feminine form corresponding to ''Polák'', a Pole)."polka, n.". Oxford University Press. (accessed 11 July 2012). Czech cultural historian Čeněk Zíbrt also attributes the term to the Czech word ''půlka'' (half), referring to both the half-tempo and the half-jump step of the dance.Čeněk Zíbrt, "Jak se kdy v Čechách tancovalo: dějiny tance v Čechách, na Moravě, ve Slezsku a na Slovensku z věků nejstarších až do nové doby se zvláštním zřetelem k dějinám tance vůbec", Prague, 189(Google eBook)/ref> The word was widely introduced into the major European languages in the early 1840s. Origin and popularity The polka' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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