Exploring Ethiopian Instrumental Music and Musicians

Timkehet Teffera
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In many Ethiopian traditional cultures, vocal music dominates the musical repertoire. It is only in a handful of traditional contexts, where solely instrumental music becomes part of the repertoire. Contrary to this, however, the modern music domain in Ethiopia offers a wide range of instrumental music. The root of instrumental music in Ethiopia is, most probably, connected with the emergence of independent/private bands in the early 1960s. These modern bands with highly trained Ethiopian musicians, among others, offered ‘light-music’ in hotels and restaurants. In the initial periods, their repertoire mainly entailed re-arranged international melodies. The advancement of the modern music paved a way to increasing musical creativity over the decades to follow. My presentation will attempt to look at instrumentals performed with western music instruments, of which the large part derives from already existing traditional and modern songs. Representative musical pieces will be given special focus in terms of their instrumentation, rearrangement, melodic and metro-rhythmic structures, form and style along with their function, meaning and understanding.
探索埃塞俄比亚器乐和音乐家
在许多埃塞俄比亚传统文化中,声乐在音乐曲目中占主导地位。只有在少数传统背景下,器乐才会成为演奏曲目的一部分。然而,与此相反,埃塞俄比亚的现代音乐领域提供了广泛的器乐。埃塞俄比亚器乐的根源很可能与20世纪60年代早期独立/私人乐队的出现有关。这些现代乐队由训练有素的埃塞俄比亚音乐家组成,在酒店和餐馆提供“轻音乐”。在最初的阶段,他们的曲目主要是重新编排的国际旋律。现代音乐的进步为随后几十年音乐创造力的增长铺平了道路。我的演讲将尝试研究用西方乐器演奏的乐器,其中很大一部分来自已经存在的传统和现代歌曲。具有代表性的音乐作品将特别关注其乐器,重排,旋律和节奏结构,形式和风格以及它们的功能,意义和理解。
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