Larchemi/Soinari - The Georgian Panpipe

Year 2017, , 52 - 94, 30.12.2017

Nino Razmadze

https://doi.org/10.33906/musicologist.373163

Abstract

This article focuses on the panpipe, one of
the ancient instruments of the Georgian traditional instrumentarium. Some
Georgian traditional instruments remain popular today, with playing and
construction techniques still preserved. Others, however, have disappeared from
everyday life and stage folklore. Today, an instrument considered as one of the
most ancient Georgian traditions – the panpipe, which we can discuss based on
documentation and materials from the first half of the 20^th century – is among
those that have disappeared from everyday life.

The article aims to collate information about
the instrument from different works by various researchers, and also to study
its organological, ethnographic and musical features. It offers in-depth
analysis of audio recordings and notated scores from fieldwork expeditions of
the 1930s and 1950s.

Nowadays, there are some attempts in the
regions as well as in the capital of Georgia to restore this instrument,
although construction and repertoire are significantly different from the
traditional forms.

Keywords

Georgian Panpipe, Larchemi, Soinari, Georgian folk musical instruments, Georgian traditional instrumentarium

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