This week I will introduce North American music.
At first, I noticed that in Europe, music is treated as a
culture. On the other hand, in the North America, it is treated as one of the
most traditional ethnic activities.
According to my research, the most famous ethical
musical instruments in this area is flute. It is commonly believed that the vast majority of flutes are metallic. However, flutes, which were discovered in this
area, such as Indian Flute (former inhabitant, America) and the Anasazi Flute
(Arizona, America), these are both made by wood and lumber.
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| Anasazi Flute |
Above these kind
of flutes, I would like to explain about the current situation of Indian Flute
in Japan. Now, in Japan, Indian flute is rarely used by the people. Many people tend to forget about the traditional things since technology has been improving, and better sounding flutes are being developed. Therefore, many Japanese people don’t know what the Indian flute is about. Even though, the quality of the sound is inferior to recent instruments, we have a duty to inherit our traditional musical instruments to the next generations as language is inherited from generation to generation.
In order to not to forget and inherit the Indian flute, “Japan
Indian Flute Circle Association (JIFCA)” has been starting since May 2012. It
was started by Odell Borg, who is from America and this project was reported
many times on the news. We need to develop more such activity to
inherit instruments, otherwise our traditional musical instruments are going to disappear.
Here is a link of
JIFCA’s official homepage.
(Sorry...I
couldn’t find English ver.)
This Indian flute similar to Japanese takebue!! I have practiced it when I was in elementary school. That flute session was a part of our music festival. That is why I had to practice it.I want to play flute again!!
返信削除I never heard North American music, and I didn't know North American music uses flute. Thank you for sharing!
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