Friday 22 october 2010
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This thesis is concerned with the jew's harp and more particularly with the link between physiological actions of the player and the resulting sound transformations. Because they are concealed by nature, jew's harp's techniques are of the most difficult to figure out as a large part of the sound transformation happens in the vocal tract. This fact is probably the reason why existing musicology researches on this instrument only have referred to the melody, which actually only represents a small range of the large modulated spectrum of the instrument: if we analyze the audio frequencies of […]
Wednesday 2 february 2011
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(This text is part of "Malaram and Bhagirat Govaria" cd's booklet, reference JHCD081 that can be ordered here) Although found nowadays almost all around the globe, the origins of the Jew’s harp still remain obscure. Lost in the dusty twist and turns of human’s history, its roots and development can only be partly brought to light through four fields of study : ethnology, organology, etymology and musicology. Taking into account that there are little chances of its emergence in several areas at the same time, the history of the Jew’s harp is similar to a complex branching driven by a […]