Georgian Folk Music - Kelaptari - Sagmiro

This is one of Georgian folk songs. Georgian national music is very old and one of the uniques in the world.
Georgian folk music possesses what is the oldest tradition of polyphonic music in the world, predating the introduction of Christianity.

Tuning
Scales used in traditional Georgian music have, like most European scales, octaves divided into seven tones (eight including the octave), but the spacing of the tones is different. As with most traditional systems of tuning, traditional Georgian folk music uses a just perfect fifth. Between the unison and the fifth, however, come three evenly-spaced notes, producing a compressed (compared to most European music) major second, a neutral third, and a stretched perfect fourth. Likewise, between the fifth and the octave come two evenly-spaced notes, producing a compressed major sixth and a stretched minor seventh. This system of tuning renders thirds as the most consonant interval after fifths, which resulted in the third being treated as a stable interval in Georgia long before it acquired that status in Western music.[citation needed]

Some consider the Georgian scale a "quintave system" (as opposed to the octave-repeating "octave system"). Due to the neutral tuning within the quintave system, the eighth degree or octave is slightly widened, which often results in a rise in pitch from the beginning of a song to the end.

Because of the influence of the Western music and its different system of tuning, present-day performances of Georgian folk music often employ Western tuning, bringing the seconds, fourths, sixths, and sevenths, and sometimes the thirds as well, closer to where they would lie in a Western scale.

FOR MORE INFO SEE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Georgia

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Georgian
• Folk
• Music
• national
• qartuli
• folkloruli
• musika
• mravaljamier
• saqartvelo
• Georgia
• ქართული
• ფოლკლორული
• მუსიკა
• მრავალჟამიერი
• orovela
• ოროველა
• kelaptari
• მცხეთა
• თბილისი

[Djibriyl]

This song is very very beautiful. Thank you for sharing it! It sounds like Byzantine orthodox music; is this a religious song? What’s the singer’s name?

Greetings from Romania!

[OrangeAni]

@Djibriyl Thank you for your comment. Georgian folk songs and Georgian Orthodox chants are very closely linked to one another. This one if a song of a farmer. I agree with you it sounds like religions one. Georgian orthodox music is very beautiful as well and sounds almost similar. I don't know the name of a singer but the ensemble is called "Kelaptari". Greetings from Georgia

[lily24111]

i adore georgian music, it is one of the most haunting, beautiful, emotional sounds i have ever heard

[OrangeAni]

@lily24111 Thank you for comment :))

[12valvepower1]

one love from america . may we be brothers one day.

[OrangeAni]

@12valvepower1 Greetings from Georgia :-)

[Kievest]

Georgian singing is deep, mystical, poetic and magic! It speaks to the deepest

places in the heart, soul and imagination no matter the national origins of

the listener! Thank you for the informative and beautifully presented video!

[UndefinedMari]

This summer I was driving back from Stepantsminda to Tbilisi and I was sitting on the back seat of the car, looking out the window at Georgia's breathtakingly beautiful landscapes sliding past. The sun was setting, nobody in the car spoke, only Georgian folk music was playing and these were one of the most amazing hours of my life.

I've been looking for that music ever since, to relive the moments. Why didn't I ask the driver what the music was..

It could've been something like this.

[hedwig85]

This is very wonderful music. I note the meter and articulated melisma

are reminiscent of chants I've also heard across middle eastern cultures and

south asia.

[HenryBrosowski]

No, but really this music is out of this world,, just beyond words

[HenryBrosowski]

Georgia must be one ost most amazing cultures in world

, still

a bit unknown, sadly...

[screamukraine]

Отлично, завораживает!

Жаль фактически не понимаю Вашего языка.

[zakiboyo123]

epic

[vaso442]

@12valvepower1 we are

[Brutusdawg123]

This makes my heart hurt.... hurt so good

[jasinohio]

What lovely, powerful music. Thanks for the harmonic background. These do sound (except for some beautiful slurs here and there) like Western intervals. Who is performing the traditional intervals you mention that you would recommend? And--forgive my ignorance--which is the artist and which is the tune in the names posted.? Thanks so much for this.