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From: aloe@rev.net
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On Mar 22, 4:57 am, The Green Troll wrote:
> On Saturday, April 4, 2009 1:16:20 AM UTC-4, The Green Troll wrote:
> > At 03:45 PM 3/26/09 -0700, The Green Troll wrote:
>
> > >David Reck, Music of the Whole Earth (1977), p24, shows a shatter
> > >belt
> > >running across Europe, roughly running around the borders of Finland,
> > >Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Thrace,
> > >Albania, Slovenia, Austria, Checkia, and Silesia.
> >Specifically, what characteristics make Russian folk music different from
its neighbors to the west?
> >Also, there is supposed to be a line across Poland. East of the line,
> >chromatic scales are heavily used in folk music. West of the line, folk
> >music is predominantly diatnoic. Where is the line across Poland?
>
> To the west, Sweden and Bohemia are shown to be in diatonic territory.
> Within the belt, Moravia and Finland have at least some chromaticism,
> making them transitional.
>
> In Poland, would it be correct to follow the dialect line? Greater
> Polish and Kashubian, with the cities of Wroclaw, Bydgoszcz, and
> Gdańsk, would be west of the line, in the diatonic folk music zone.
> Lesser Polish, Masovian, and Silesian, with the cities of Warsaw,
> Cracow, Katowice, £ód¼, and Opole, would be east of the line, in the
> chromatic folk music zone. If that is not the right place, it must be
> close.
Does that mean all of Kujawy folk music is based on the diatonic
genus?
Beco dos Gatinhos
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