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Fiddle-singing

Fiddle-singing is a vocal–instrumental performance practice in which a musician sings while simultaneously playing the fiddle (violin), often maintaining rhythmic bowing patterns or melodic counterpoint beneath the vocal line. The technique is found in multiple traditional music cultures, including Métis, Québécois, Appalachian, Scandinavian, and Celtic…

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Examples of fiddle-singers

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Musical characteristics

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Contemporary revival and innovation

Andrew BirdRhiannon GiddensAleksi Campagne
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History and cultural context

Musical characteristics

Contemporary revival and innovation

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Fiddle-singing

Nodes50
Edges49
Triples35
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.04
Components1

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Fiddle-singing

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related to Contemporary revival and innovation · 12
Fiddle-singing → Aleksi Campagne, American, Canada, Canadian, Fiddle-Singer Andrew Bird, In, Looping, Northern Europe, Rhiannon Giddens, Scholars, Since, United States
related to Musical characteristics · 10
Fiddle-singing → Alternation, Call-and-response, Dorian, Drone, Mixolydian, Modal, Repeated, Rhythmic, Sustained, Use
related to North American Traditions · 10
Fiddle-singing → Anishinaabe, Cree, Dene, Ethnomusicologist Luc Lacourcière, For, In French Canadian, Lawrence Barkwell, Métis, Québec, Québécois
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Fiddle-singing → vocal

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fiddle singing vocal rhythmic traditions music playing instrumental often folk performance traditional dance violin maintaining patterns beneath textures melodic métis

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Fiddle-singingis avocal0.90text
traditional ballad singers sometimes accompanied themselves lightly on fiddleinstance ofperformers0.80text
though the practice was less common than banjo or guitar self-accompanimentinstance ofperformers0.80text
Fiddle-singingrelated to Contemporary revival and innovationSince0.60section
Fiddle-singingrelated to Contemporary revival and innovationCanada0.60section
Fiddle-singingrelated to Contemporary revival and innovationUnited States0.60section
Fiddle-singingrelated to Contemporary revival and innovationNorthern Europe0.60section
Fiddle-singingrelated to Contemporary revival and innovationIn0.60section
Fiddle-singingrelated to Contemporary revival and innovationLooping0.60section
Fiddle-singingrelated to Contemporary revival and innovationFiddle-Singer Andrew Bird0.60section
Fiddle-singingrelated to Contemporary revival and innovationAmerican0.60section
Fiddle-singingrelated to Contemporary revival and innovationRhiannon Giddens0.60section

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