From: gandatravel@gmail.com   
      
   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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