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 Music from Georgia
- Workshop with members of Mzetamze
Mzetamze is an ensemble for traditional music of Georgian women at the Methodical Centre for Folk Art and Culture in Tbilissi.
All six singers are also ethnomusicologists and work as teachers. Thanks to their fields of special interest, they can offer you very good insight into the variety of the traditional Georgian music and their researches. Ketevan Baïashvili studies the Georgian mourning-customs and is the director of a folklore studio for children in the foothills region of Tianeti; Nino Shvelidze is a scientific assistant at the Folklore Centre in Tbilissi and teaches at a music school; Ketevan Nikoladze works on the contexts of polyphonic singing and the double flutes of western Georgia; Nato Zumbadze studies the women's song repertory tied to customs; Nino Macharadze does research into Georgian lullabies and the semantics of words composed of nonsense syllables used in Georgian songs; Nana Valishvili works on references about folk music in Georgian literature. In autumn of 1986, these six women founded their folklore ensemble, which has been supported by the Scientific Centre for folk Art and Culture since 1988. The ensemble's name Mzetamze means "sun of the suns" and derives from the astral cult of the sun. In the ancient beliefs and folk customs of Georgian tribes, the sun is the symbol for the light and fertility connected with the female origins of the cosmos and our world.
Mzetamze's workshops on chants of the various regional styles are held in German and eventually also in French or English. Besides the vocal music, introductions are offered into the basic playing techniques of traditional instruments
- Ensemble Mzetamze - female ensemble from Tbilissi
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 Music & Dances of the Ukraine
- Workshop with members of Khreshchaty Yar
The ensemble was founded in June 1990. All members of the ensemble have either studied at the conservatory or at the music-college in Kiev and work as professional musicians today.
Their traditional music is predominantly heterephonic: the same melody is distributed among different voice parts, with one leading voice, mostly in a middle register. The lead singer (zaspiwoowach) determines the course of the melody and the other voices come in later. This heterophonic group singing is often embellished by an indipendent voice in a very high register (wywodtshyk).
The principle of heterophony allows the principal voice much space for improvisation, continous variation and embellishment. It has also an effect on the lyrics, in so far as single words or phrases are lengthened with vocalisms or entlarged with additional syllables.
The Cossackdom played an important role in the area of the modern Ukraine. In the 16th century, Cossack communities were established in southwestern, southern and southeastern regions of Russia, in the region of Moscow, in Belorussia and in the Ukraine.
Khreshchaty Yar organizes workhsops (in German or English language) about the chants in the different regional-styles. Besides vocal music, they offer introductions into the basic playing thechniques on traditional instruments.
- Ensemble Khreshchaty Yar - mixed vocal and instrumental ensemble from Kiev
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