Galician fiddle versus tambourine

Alfonso Franco

Galician fiddle versus tambourine

Alfonso Franco

Elphinstone Institute

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Abstract

In Galicia, popular music played on the fiddle was kept alive throughout the centuries by blind fiddlers. The last of these musicians disappeared in the late 1970s, but some audio and video recordings have been made for future generations. Then ‘folk’ music took over, and a new way of interpreting traditional music on the fiddle developed, based on the blind fiddlers’ style, adapting the violin technique in perfect union with the most popular musical instrument in Galicia: the tambourine. In recent years the fiddle – traditionally played only
by professional musicians1 – has, however, grown in popularity among a young public, especially in the south of the region.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ón gCos go Cluas
Subtitle of host publication	From Dancing to Listening
Editors	Liz Doherty, Fintan Vallely
Publisher	Aberdeen University Press
Chapter	9
Pages	76-85
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	978-1-85752-073-6
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	North Atlantic Fiddle Convention Conference - Northern Ireland, Derry/Londonderry, United Kingdom Duration: 27 Jun 2012 → 1 Jul 2012

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Name	Fiddle and Dance Studies from around the North Atlantic 5

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Conference	North Atlantic Fiddle Convention Conference
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Derry/Londonderry
Period	27/06/12 → 1/07/12

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