en.unionpedia.org

Txistu, the Glossary

The txistu is a kind of fipple flute that became a symbol for the Basque folk revival.^[1]

20 relations: Basque Country (greater region), Basque music, Fipple, Francoist Spain, Gregorian chant, Labourd, Melody, Mixolydian mode, Navarre, Octave, Palatalization (phonetics), Percussion instrument, Pipe and tabor, Polyphony, Soule, Tabor (instrument), Three-hole pipe, Txalaparta, Xavier María de Munibe e Idiáquez, Xirula.
Basque musical instruments
Internal fipple flutes

Basque Country (greater region)

The Basque Country (Euskal Herria; País Vasco; Pays basque) is the name given to the home of the Basque people.

See Txistu and Basque Country (greater region)

Basque music

Basque music refers to the music made in the Basque Country, reflecting traits related to its society/tradition, and devised by people from that territory.

See Txistu and Basque music

Fipple

The term fipple specifies a variety of end-blown flute that includes the flageolet, recorder, and tin whistle.

See Txistu and Fipple

Francoist Spain (España franquista), also known as the Francoist dictatorship (dictadura franquista), was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title Caudillo.

See Txistu and Francoist Spain

Gregorian chant

Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin (and occasionally Greek) of the Roman Catholic Church.

See Txistu and Gregorian chant

Labourd

Labourd (Lapurdi; Lapurdum; Labord) is a former French province and part of the present-day Pyrénées Atlantiques département of Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.

See Txistu and Labourd

Melody

A melody, also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.

See Txistu and Melody

Mixolydian mode

Mixolydian mode may refer to one of three things: the name applied to one of the ancient Greek harmoniai or tonoi, based on a particular octave species or scale; one of the medieval church modes; or a modern musical mode or diatonic scale, related to the medieval mode.

See Txistu and Mixolydian mode

Navarre

Navarre, officially the Chartered Community of Navarre, is a landlocked foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Autonomous Community, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and Nouvelle-Aquitaine in France.

See Txistu and Navarre

Octave

In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the '''diapason''') is a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice the frequency of vibration of the other.

See Txistu and Octave

Palatalization (phonetics)

In phonetics, palatalization or palatization is a way of pronouncing a consonant in which part of the tongue is moved close to the hard palate.

See Txistu and Palatalization (phonetics)

Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument.

See Txistu and Percussion instrument

Pipe and tabor

Pipe and tabor is a pair of instruments played by a single player, consisting of a three-hole pipe played with one hand, and a small drum played with the other.

See Txistu and Pipe and tabor

Polyphony

Polyphony is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice (monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).

See Txistu and Polyphony

Soule

Soule (Basque: Zuberoa; Zuberoan/ Soule Basque: Xiberoa or Xiberua; Sola) is a former viscounty and French province and part of the present-day Pyrénées-Atlantiques département.

See Txistu and Soule

Tabor (instrument)

A tabor,, tabret (Tabwrdd), tambour de Provence, Provençal tambourin or Catalan tamborí is a portable snare drum, typically played either with one hand or with two drumsticks.

See Txistu and Tabor (instrument)

Three-hole pipe

The three-hole pipe, also commonly known as tabor pipe or galoubet, is a wind instrument designed to be played by one hand, leaving the other hand free to play a tabor drum, bell, psalterium or tambourin à cordes, bones, triangle or other percussive instrument. Txistu and three-hole pipe are Internal fipple flutes.

See Txistu and Three-hole pipe

Txalaparta

The txalaparta is a specialized Basque music device of wood or stone. Txistu and txalaparta are basque musical instruments.

See Txistu and Txalaparta

Xavier María de Munibe e Idiáquez

Xavier María de Munibe e Idiáquez, Count of Peñaflorida (23 October 1729 — 13 January 1785) was a Spanish writer and intellectual, known for his leading work in Enlightenment Spain and Basque literature.

See Txistu and Xavier María de Munibe e Idiáquez

Xirula

The xirula (spelled chiroula in French, also pronounced txirula, (t)xülüla in Zuberoan Basque; Gascon: flabuta; French: galoubet) is a small three holed woodwind instrument or flute usually made of wood akin to the Basque txistu or three-hole pipe, but more high pitched and strident, tuned to D/G and an octave higher than the silbote. Txistu and xirula are basque musical instruments and Internal fipple flutes.

See Txistu and Xirula

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Txistu

Also known as Chistu.