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==Instruments==
Music in Thedish speaking cultures differed strongly depending on region; Italian Thedish music was closer to European musical styles whereas North African Thedish music had more in common with Middle Eastern musical styles. Both styles are common among Thedes today.


þe térem = string instrument (from Türiŋit täärm)
==Musical terms==


þe kátérem = guqin (← kaa-täärm 'ancient string instrument')
Thedish musicians prefer to translate or calque musical terms.


þe júskion = dulcimer (← jüüskön)
===Italian Thedish music===


þí klársiach = harp (← cláirseach)
slap = piano (soft)


þe kinnór = lyre (← cinnowr)
stark = forte (loud)


þe piengeng (térem) = bowed string instrument (← peŋ-eŋ (bow-COMITATIVE))
fanþiend = andante (walking)


þe siópiengeng = violin (← söö-peŋeŋ 'small bowed')
pik = allegro, vivace (lively)


þe latspiengeng = cello (← lats-peŋeŋ 'large bowed')
úthużengfól = expressive


þe lúg (← luug), þí fiadóg (← feadóg) = (two kinds of) flute
slýþsam = adagio (slow)


þí szavúrtéreme = broken instruments
snióen yncz = not rushed


==Tuning==
þí spriakstamnie = Sprechstimme


===13th century===
þí simbskapie = chorus


===North African Thedish music===


===15th century===
żard = maqam


===17th century===
Maqam names used in Thedish music aren't translated: Rástı, Bajátı, Ażem, Kurdı, Sieká, Sabe, Hiżáz, Nahavend


There are three kinds of systems:
sometimes they use ''dur'' and ''mól'' instead of Ażem and Nahavend


1) Two eleven-limit diamonds spaced a perfect fifth apart, or two (1...13)x(1...1/7) diamonds spaced a perfect fifth apart
===Common musical forms===


2) A cross set (1...15)x(1...15)
furgang = bashraf; prelude


3) An Euler-Fokker genus 3⁴x5²x7²
fiól = dulab; rondo


===19th century (popular)===
útþank = taqsim; impromptu


===European Theory===
lióþ = song


* Babylonians independently discover pythagorean tuning and Greeks extend it into genera
lióþer = melody (from *hleu-þrą <- PIE *klew-trom)
* poly-pythagorean chains introduced by Jewish theorists to explain the enharmonic genus


===Chinese Theory===
==Styles==


* experiments in pythagorean tuning followed by the discovery of 12- and 53-tone MOS scales
===Thedish opera===
* higher limit tonalities introduced by throat-singers; subsequent treatises describe otonality as yin (qürm) and utonality as yang (läŋ)
Very similar to Italian opera and often written in "Theditalian", a form of Italian with Germanic syntax; some modern composers write operas in Arabic and Persian
* musical theater, orchestra, Partchian ideas
 
===Hybrid musical forms===
Contemporary Thedish music incorporates both Arab and European influences; for instance symphonies are written in maqams
 
==Thedish musicians==
 
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Latest revision as of 08:43, 12 July 2023

Music in Thedish speaking cultures differed strongly depending on region; Italian Thedish music was closer to European musical styles whereas North African Thedish music had more in common with Middle Eastern musical styles. Both styles are common among Thedes today.

Musical terms

Thedish musicians prefer to translate or calque musical terms.

Italian Thedish music

slap = piano (soft)

stark = forte (loud)

fanþiend = andante (walking)

pik = allegro, vivace (lively)

úthużengfól = expressive

slýþsam = adagio (slow)

snióen yncz = not rushed

þí spriakstamnie = Sprechstimme

þí simbskapie = chorus

North African Thedish music

żard = maqam

Maqam names used in Thedish music aren't translated: Rástı, Bajátı, Ażem, Kurdı, Sieká, Sabe, Hiżáz, Nahavend

sometimes they use dur and mól instead of Ażem and Nahavend

Common musical forms

furgang = bashraf; prelude

fiól = dulab; rondo

útþank = taqsim; impromptu

lióþ = song

lióþer = melody (from *hleu-þrą <- PIE *klew-trom)

Styles

Thedish opera

Very similar to Italian opera and often written in "Theditalian", a form of Italian with Germanic syntax; some modern composers write operas in Arabic and Persian

Hybrid musical forms

Contemporary Thedish music incorporates both Arab and European influences; for instance symphonies are written in maqams

Thedish musicians

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