Description
The sticks used by the dancers can be considered as directly struck idiophones. They have a different shape depending on the region.
Way of playing
They hit each other, thus producing the sound.
History
In some dances, the dancers use sticks of different woods, sizes and shapes, which hit each other and set the rhythm. Games and stick dances abound in Basque folklore. Among the idiophones presented by Father Donostia (1952) in his article on Basque instruments, he cites the sticks, pordones or canes (p. 294).
SOURCES
Bibliography
DONOSTIA, Aita. (1952). Instrumentos Musicales Populares Vascos. Obras Completas del P. Donostia. (Tomo II, 257-309). Bilbao: ED. La Gran Enciclopedia Vasca, 1983.
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- Number:
- 6
- Classification:
- Idiophones -> Struck -> Directly
- Notes:
- Dantzarien makilak
