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Music played in this style differs from actual Romani music played by Romani and Sinti people, many of whom regard the term "gypsy" as a slur when applied to their community. It consists mainly of instrumentals and usually performed by strings , except in the Romanian variant where the pan flute is the main instrument.
Romani music (often referred to as gypsy or gipsy music, which is sometimes considered a derogatory term) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] is the music of the Romani people ...
Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs, Spanish: Aires gitanos), Op. 20, is a musical composition for violin and orchestra written in 1878 by the Spanish composer Pablo de Sarasate.It was premiered the same year in Leipzig, Germany.
Gypsy music may refer to: Gypsy music, also known as Gypsy style, Romani-related music played in a characteristic gypsy style and Romani music, the original music of the Romani people; Gypsy jazz, jazz played by Romani people; Gypsy punk, a hybrid of Romani music and punk rock; Gypsy scale, a musical scale sometimes found in Romani music
Tchavolo Schmitt (left) with Steeve Laffont, playing their brand of gypsy jazz at la Chope des Puces, Paris, in 2016. Gypsy jazz (also known as sinti jazz, gypsy swing, jazz manouche or hot club-style jazz) is a musical idiom inspired by the Romani jazz guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt (1910–1953), in conjunction with the French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli (1908–1997), as expressed ...
The term Gypsy scale refers to one of several musical scales named after their support of and association with Romani or "Gypsy" music: Double harmonic scale (major), the fifth mode of Hungarian minor, or Double Harmonic minor, scale, also known as the Byzantine scale.
Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured song". Originally used by medieval music theorists, it refers to polyphonic song with exactly measured notes and is used in contrast to cantus planus. [3] [4] capo 1. capo (short for capotasto: "nut") : A key-changing device for stringed instruments (e.g. guitars and banjos)
a measure or bar; flamencos use the word to mean both (a) the name of the type of twelve-count and (b) the rhythmic skill of a performer contratiempo cross-rhythms; including syncopation and rubato copla verse of cante flamenco, as against the cuple of a (non-flamenco) canto coraje a way of performing that shows impetuosity or daring (lit ...