On Tuesday, May 4, 1993 at 1:07:58 PM UTC+2, Rosa Michaelson wrote:
The only 'similarity' I hear between andean music & 'celtic' music
is that it sometimes sounds plaintive to me. The scales are not the
same - and the instruments are totally different, the contexts are also
very different. Andean music is often performed for sacred reasons - I don't remember many work songs or formal set dances.
There are good flute tunes for tending sheep which ought to be found in 'Celtic'
music. These are not found in Scotland but the Galician or Breton pipe & whistle
repetoire - perhaps due to differing types of industrialisation and
the loss of earlier forms. They do have spanish
influences for some waltz types and polkas - not what Rumillajta tend to play.
On the other hand Rumillajta has toured Scotland about 7 times and stayed with a friend in Edinburgh most times - Fiona runs Heartbeat which brings 'world music' to Scotland.
Maybe they picked up some Scotish influences...I doubt it.
The Chiftans seemed to think that Chinese folk music was pentatonic &
very like Irish music. This was a very broad-based interpretation.
It seems to me that the more 'emotive' one is about music and one's response -
- or the less culturallly or socially centered about the performance of
that music-
the more one tends towards the 'music as universal language' utterence...
I happen to be descendants of both Celts and Andeans and the similarities are very interesting>
No written language
animist beliefs
Belief in Sacred mountains
Shamanistic-Priestly caste
Chased from their homelands. The Celts by Romans and the Andeans by the Spanish
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