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America del Nord
Canada · USA · México
Diciassette brani e tre paesi: violino celtico sulla costa atlantica del Canada, portici degli Appalachi, Delta del Mississippi, ottoni di New Orleans e sones del Messico.
Tradizioni
- Cape Breton fiddling in Nova Scotia preserves Scottish Gaelic repertoire and bowing that shifted or faded in Scotland itself.
- Quebec's reels are played with the feet: the seated player taps a rhythm — podorythmie — while bowing, and the crooked tunes add or drop beats where the dance asks.
- Appalachian string band music carries Scots-Irish tunes reshaped by the banjo, an instrument of West African descent.
- The Mississippi Delta gave the blues its twelve-bar frame and its bent, between-the-notes pitch.
- New Orleans brass bands come from the city's parade and funeral tradition, where the second line follows the band.
- Mexican son is regional rather than national: son jarocho on the Veracruz coast, son huasteco in the northeast, mariachi's son jalisciense in the west.
Strumenti
- Fiddle — Cape Breton, Quebec and Appalachian, each with its own bowing
- Five-string banjo — of West African descent, central to Appalachian music
- Harmonica and slide guitar — the voice of the Delta blues
- Brass — trumpet, trombone and sousaphone of the New Orleans parade
- Jarana and requinto — the small guitars of son jarocho
- Vihuela and guitarrón — the rhythm and bass of mariachi
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