![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first commercial recording of Galician music had come in 1904, by a corale called Aires d'a Terra from Pontevedra. The Galician folk revival drew on early 20th century performers like Perfecto Feijoo, a bagpipe and hurdy-gurdy player. The Cantigas de Santa Maria, a collection of manuscripts written in old Galician, also show illustrations of people playing bagpipes. Just a few manuscripts from the time are known, such as those by the 13th-century poet and musician Martín Codax, which indicate that some of the distinctive elements of today's music, such as the bagpipes and flutes, were common at the time. Like the earlier periods, little is known about musical traditions from this era. This is assumed to have had a significant effect on the folk culture of the area, as the pilgrims brought with them musical instruments and styles from as far afield as Scandinavia and Hungary. It became Europe's premier pilgrimage destination in the Middle Ages. In 810, it was claimed that the remains of Saint James, one of the apostles, had been found at a site which soon became known as Santiago de Compostela. The region was incorporated into the Kingdom of Asturias and, after surviving the assaults of the Moors and Vikings, became the springboard for the Reconquista. Moorish rule ended after two decades when the their garrison was driven out by a rebellion in 739. Galicia came under the control of the Moors after they defeated the Visigoths in 717 but Moorish rule was little more than a short lived military occupation, although an indirect Moorish musical influence arrived later, through Christian troubadours. Galicia was then taken over by the Visigothic Kingdom when the Suebian kingdom fell apart. In the 6th century, a final small Celtic influx arrived from Britain the Britons were granted their own diocese, Britonia, in northern Galicia. The Suebi people conquered the northwest but the poor documentation from the period has left their cultural impact on the region unclear. The departure of the Romans in the 5th century led to the invasions of Germanic tribes. In the centuries that followed, the language of the Romans, Latin, came to gradually supplant nearly all the earlier languages of the peninsula, including all Celtic languages, and is the ancestor of all the current languages of Spain and Portugal, including Galician and Astur-Leonese-Mirandese but not Basque. The Celtic regions put up a long and fierce struggle to maintain their independence but were eventually subdued. During the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, the Roman Empire slowly conquered Iberia, which they called Hispania. In any case, due to the Celtic brand, Galician music is the only non- Castilian-speaking music of Spain that has a significant audience beyond the country's borders.Ĭeltic culture is known to have extended over a large part of the Iberian Peninsula as early as 600BC. Many, however, claim that the "Celtic" appellation is merely a marketing tag the well known Galician bagpipe player Susana Seivane, said "I think a label, in order to sell more. As a result, elements of the pre-industrial Galician tradition have become integrated into the modern Celtic folk repertoire and style. Galicia is nowadays a strong player on the international Celtic folk scene. Whether or not this is the case, much modern commercial Galician traditional and folk-rock of recent years has become strongly influenced by modern Irish, Scottish and Welsh "folk" styles. It has long been thought that Galician music might owe its roots to the ancient Celtic history of the region, in which it was presumed that some of this ancient influence had survived despite the long evolution of the local musical traditions since then, including centuries of Roman and Germanic influences. The music is characterised by the use of bagpipes. The traditional music of Galicia, located along Spain's north-west Atlantic coast, is a highly distinctive folk style. ![]()
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