Mastodawn

Let's do some Peruvian Baroque #Music today. This is Mariposa de sus Rayos composed by José de Orejón y Aparicio (1706-1765), originally written for soprano, continuo and 2 violins.
here it's played on a hatun charango though; Hatun means "grand" in Quechua. This popular innovation on the trad #Instrument stems from 2001, and adds lower strings with a longer scale length. to enable playing a larger repertoire, including #classicalMusic.
#Ethnomusicology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBM9a118hQE

José de Orejón y Aparicio-"Mariposa de sus Rayos"-MARCORE-Hatun Charango

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Petr Nuska 1d ago

#CFP

Modal Migration, Maqām Beyond Nation

📍 SOAS, London
📅 17–18 September 2026

Explores cross-border maqām traditions, postnational musical creativities, mobility, decolonial approaches, and modal exchange beyond nation-state canons.

Papers welcome from ethnographic, analytical, archival and practice-based perspectives.

Deadline: 08/05/2026

https://www.maqamproject.uk/

#MusicStudies #Ethnomusicology #Maqam #DecolonialStudies #Migration

Petr Nuska 1d ago

#CFP
Music in the (Sub-)Arctic

📍 Oxford
📅 7–8 September 2026

Interdisciplinary conference on music, sound, climate, Indigenous expression, and geopolitics in Arctic and sub-Arctic contexts.

Deadline: 15/05/2026

https://www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-09-07-music-in-the-sub-arctic

#Ethnomusicology
#SoundStudies #ArcticStudies #IndigenousStudies

Music in the (sub-)Arctic

Petr Nuska 1d ago

#CFP

Musical Commemorations/Contestations

Special issue on music, memory, identity, and power in postcolonial contexts, exploring commemorative and contested sonic practices.

Deadline: 01/05/2026

https://www.inetmd.pt/en/diffusion/cfp-musical-commemorations-contestations-in-postcolonial-contexts-negotiating-memory-identity-and-power/

#Ethnomusicology #PostcolonialStudies #MemoryStudies #SoundStudies

CfP: Musical Commemorations/Contestations in Postcolonial Contexts: Negotiating Memory, Identity, and Power – INET-md

Cassana 🍻2d ago

On request, so here you go, @dusepo
This is me playing two notes on my short Tibetan horn. It's about 95cm (37.5inch) long with the typical three-part periscoping design. It's an antique, probably around 140-150 years old now. When I got it the tube was blocked near the mouthpiece, so I've had to give it some TLC to make it playable again. I like that it's got a bit of growl, and sometimes a heap more than in this recording; it can get rather “wrathful.” #Ethnomusicology

Cassana 🍻3d ago

RE: https://toot.dusepo.co.uk/@dusepo/116465462754184836

Adding this in case you’re curious what a karnay sounds like #Ethnomusicology #WorldMusic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWJoSOv5h_o

Cassana 🍻4d ago

this is Jerron Paxton with No More the Moon Shines on Lorena, accompanying himself on a minstrel #banjo. It's possible you've never heard this type of very percussive stroke style.
In his intro he says banjo comes from the word for papyrus. Let me clarify. Ban in various Manding languages means palm tree; used for making palm wine (banji) and ropes/string from its root fibres (banjulo). It's the best theory for the initial element IMHO.
#Music #Ethnomusicology #FolkMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSxx8qtTudU

Jerron Paxton at The Ark: No More the Moon Shines on Lorena

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Cassana 🍻6d ago

Whenever I share some Hindustani classical #Music it's inevitable that I get YT recommendations featuring one of my favourite singers, Kaushiki Chakraborty.
this is Unfulfilled from her JamRoom series. It features voice, sarangi, keyboard, tabla and percussion. Stylistically it goes quite #Jazz #Fusion with Hindustani classical elements like thumri and ghazal vocal style, sarangi shadowing the sung melody, and rupaktal (7 beats).
#Ethnomusicology #WorldMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=768QH0zlI28