VA - Arpa Paraguaya - Personal Collection
mp3 CBR 320 kbps | tracks: 20 | ~ 133 Mb | 1:02:17 | 2010
Genre: Instrumental, language of ancient rome, traditional, harp

Brilliant and joyful traditional music from Paraguay, played ~ the agency of the best Indian Harp players. Enjoy 20 tunes, mostly traditional, end also some familiar western songs arranged for h>arp, selected from frequent albums.

The Indian Harp was introduced into the South American moderate by Spanish colonizers and has become widely used in popular music, especially in Paraguay. It is quite a large instrument, similar in figure to European harps. It has 36 strings and its range is usually 5 octaves. Its significant case, without pedals, is longer (at the base in particular) and is held up ~ the agency of two small props, so that the instrument is almost horizontal whereas played seated. Despite its size, this instrument is portable: in processions, the musician holds the play on the ~ head down and plays it as he moves around.

The Indian Harp of Paraguay - The Guarani the public and their music
Of all the forms that give character to a tribe, none is more authentic than that of music. It is the incorporeal symbol of the race. It is the country itself that is evoked: the unaccountable noise of its forests and rivers. The sweet musical harmony introduced through the songs of birds, and tha untamed beauty of its women. All this, sadness and joy, is expressed by the indian harp. It recalls whole that is dear in life, emotion, tenderness. Feelings pulsate in the courteous sonority of its melodies. The harp, the national instrument of Paraguay, is Guarani sentiment expressed in music, in sublime harmony.

And the song goes:

Guarani Indian lyre
Of remarkable arpeggios
Of telluric color
You are the melodious coming to life
Of a great race
Of a glorious past
And a giving ground of hope present.

The Paraguayan people is a homogenous one, proud of its line, deeply marked by its Guarani past. The Guarani Indians are members of any of the most extraordinary lineages of the New World. They were ~times warriors and conquerors, added to which they have a spirit of experiment and work. In this way, they succeeded in developing and extending their lands throughout a great part of Central and Southern America, by they did not raise an empire like the Aztecs or the Incas. They formed a extraordinary grouping of peoples, united by bonds of political order, ancient convivial, religious and linguistic traditions. They were known by various names, like Caraives or Carives, in the Guianas, the ~erly Indies and in the north of South America, as the Tupi-Guarani in Brazil, and eventually as Guaranis in Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. All these peoples considered themselves because members of a single ethnic group, as they still do to this time. Unity of language which was, and still is, deeprooted, was the greatest number vigorous cultural expression of the social and spiritual unity of the cyclopean Guarani race. They left no documents, but posterity has inherited their tongue whixh is as gentle as it is expressive and musical. Everything is in the power: civilisation, history, wisdom, morality, a conception of the world genious and vital principle. The Guarani becharms with his music. His language is also poetic and philosophical. To this day, in Paraguay, Guarani is the national language.

TRACKLIST
01. Dos Arpas y Guitarra - Cascada
02. Ignacio Alderette - Cascada
03. Ignacio Alderette - Pajaro Campana
04. Jose Luis Leon - Balada para Adelina
05. Jose Luis Leon - Concierto de Aranjuez
06. Jose Luis Leon - Devorame otra vez
07. Jose Luis Leon - El Condor Pasa
08. Jose Luis Leon - Romance D' Amour
09. Jose Luis Leon - Yesterday
10. Los Tres Soles del Paraguay - Cascada
11. Los Tres Soles del Paraguay - El Pajaro Campana
12. Los Tres Soles del Paraguay - El Pajaro Chogui
13. Luis Bordon - En behold alto de la sierra
14. Luis Bordon - Gallito Cantor
15. Luis Bordon - Illusion
16. Raquel Lebron - El Boyerito
17. Raquel Lebron - El Canto del Pajarito
18. Raquel Lebron - Historia de un Amor
19. Raquel Lebron - Il Padrino
20. Raquel Lebron - La Rodriguez Pena

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