Re: Bitchin' about the role of percussion in Mideastern in

[Ernie Gruner / Cathy Dowden <erniegru...>]

Paul
please could you describe the buben and the baraban more
can you refer to any recordings or photographs or players or makers of
these instruments? Do you know anything about the rhythmic patterns and
role in ensemble etc?
thankyou Ernie

At 08:14 16/02/99 EDT, you wrote:
>Ernie Gruner <erniegru (at) mira(dot)net> wrote:
>
>> My understanding of KLEZMER (east european jewish music - the early stuff
>> before it came to america) is that percussion instruments were not strong
>> or even present and  that the percussion came from the  way the instruments
>> were played etc.
>
>The buben (large tambourine with a handle) and baraban (bass drum, 
>with cymbal on top) were quite common.  Rimsky-Korsakov, for example,
>described a Jewish trio of violin, tsimbaly, and buben, which appeared
>in his hometown Tikhvin (in northern Russia, outside the Pale) in the 
>mid-1850s, and became the fashionable musicians among the landowners. 
> The same instrumentation still is used in Belarus and Ukraine.  I 
>heard a similar Ukrainian-Canadian trio (but with a drum set instead 
>of a bass drum) about 20 years ago in Windsor, Ontario----the 
>percussion definitely is prominent.
>
>Paul Gifford
>
>
>
>
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