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MUSIC IS LIFE
"Music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable."
Music occupies an important place in our daily lives. When we draw an analogy between music and sport, in the sense that they both involve practice and performance, we get a clearer picture of who we are, and of the social, moral and aesthetic values that guide our existence.
Music varies from one society to another. A means of communication, the rules that govern it and the environment in which it is produced are specific to each society
Our personal nature and the knowledge we acquire from our surroundings determine our interest in this art form. These cultural values influence our perception and understanding of music, and allow us to decode the symbolic messages it can convey and to derive a certain pleasure from listening to it.
"When people of traditional societies make common objects used in everyday life or exceptional objects for ceremonial purposes, they display more than skill: the form and decoration of the objects are an expression of their culture. "
Musical instruments play an important sociocultural role in all societies, often being associated with religion, magic or the exercise of power.
A medium through which a particular repertoire of melodies and rhythms is expressed, musical instruments are also a means of communication among members of a community. In all religious rituals, they serve as intermediaries between the human world and the spiritual world. They play a symbolic role because they represent the temporal or spiritual power of a person or a group.
All societies have music. In this exhibition, we will discover various forms, uses and sounds of musical instruments from around the world, as well as materials used to make instruments.
The lute is common to several countries in North Africa and the Middle East. This one is characteristic of Tunisia. Its proportions, its tuning, the materials used to make it and the number of strings distinguish it from the Middle Eastern lute (ud sharqi). The pear-shaped body of the ud arbi is narrower, rounded and composed of 12 to 20 ribs of very thin wood. The one seen here has an oak soundboard and three openwork roses. It is played with a plectrum made from an eagle feather cut in half lengthwise. The ud arbi accompanies Tunisian music of the classical tradition, of which one of the best-known forms is the nouba, a poetic and musical suite consisting of several instrumental and vocal pieces that must be performed at a specific moment in the day. Some of the songs that accompany the ud arbi in the nouba deal with love, nature and wine, while others, devoted to religious subjects, advocate piety and implore divine mercy.
MUSIC AND IDENTITY
Self-definition depends on oneself, but affirmation depends on others.
– Philosophical concept
The appearance of world music in our environment reflects the society in which we live. In our multicultural society, it seems essential for us to be familiar with the music of others in order to understand our own musical identity, "because the need for identity, which is the need to distinguish oneself, exists only with respect to others".
(Philippe Laburthe-Tolra, translation)
Each society has its own music, but no two are the same. Therein lies the question of identity. There is a correlation between music and everything else; all music is a vehicle for the cultural identity of the group in which it originates. Certain types of music represent a nation or an ethnic group; they serve as emblems and can be perceived as stereotypes associated with the community from which they emerged.
Through their style of play, sports teams reflect certain characteristics of the community they represent. People support a particular team because they identify with it and recognize themselves in the image it projects. "A team often seems like the ideal reflection of the population whose standard it bears" (Christian Bromberger, translation).
wonderful cartoon:- Music and Life - Alan Watts