Talk:Music of Ethiopia/Archive 1

Aster Aweke: most popular?
I'm wondering about the statement that Aster Aweke is the most popular musician from Ethiopia. I thought it would have been Tilahun Gessesse, and perhaps Mahmoud Ahmed or Aster after that. If it were somehow put to a vote, I'm not sure that Aster would come out on top. But then again, I'm probably thinking of "most popular among Ethiopians," which isn't necessarily the same thing as "from Ethiopia." I thought this could, perhaps, be qualified with "most popular in Western countries" (e.g., two albums with a major label) though I wonder if Gigi has surpassed her in that particular regard. Instead I modified the sentence to "one of the most..." -- Gyrofrog (talk) 06:08, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

I added this to Aster profile and it got deleted, Aster is v popular, mayb too popular if u know what i mean, her singing drives me mad, day and night they play her, "yeah Konjo hey Konjo"--Halaqah 00:59, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Moving comments from article
I would kindly like to make a some correction on the article about Ethiopian Music. Corrections are as follows: Thank you!! (comments by 206.130.170.11) I think I agree with the above comment. Its so diverse that if one is to point out an influence, they should make a reference to a specific Ethiopian musical tradition.
 * Among other errors on the article, the sentence that says "Ethiopian music is strongly influenced by Muslim and Somalis" is incorrect. Rather, Ethiopian music is influenced by its culture. Religion might have some factor for its uniquness. But not a strong factor.
 * The word "Senna-work (wax & gold)" spelled wrong . The correct one is "Semina-Work"
 * Thanks for the corrections, but if you spot something that needs to be fixed, please go ahead and do so. By the way some references concerning this information would be helpful (not directed only to you, but to this article's editors in general). In the future, if you just want to comment on the article, do so on the talk page. Thanks! -- Gyrofrog (talk) 19:39, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Time Signature
Can someone discuss the unique time signature that 3ple beat thing? I actually want to know and it should be in the article.or did i miss it.--Halaqah 00:58, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I would call it a 3/4 or 6/8, but Grove (see following section) said this isn't formally notated, other than names for certain rhythmic patterns. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 03:58, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Grove Dictionary, additions etc.
I went to a library (imagine!) and photocopied the "Ethiopia" article from the New Grove Dictionary a few weeks ago. (Ideally, if I had more time and energy, I would have used the sources in the Grove bibliography, rather than Grove itself. Perhaps someone else could take on that task?) This evening I got around to finally adding some of the info (I would say I "expanded" the article, but now that I look at it, it doesn't seem to have expanded much). The article begins "The music of Ethiopia is extremely diverse," so I thought I would specify that some things that we (or at least I) usually hear about, like azmari, masenqo, krar etc., are generally found in the highlands and are not indicative of all Ethiopian music. I added some info about other peoples and areas but even Grove mentions this isn't as thoroughly documented. I removed some text from the "Musical theory" section that was not attributed, and was not mentioned in Grove, either. (By the way, some quick second and third glances indicate that Grove does not use the word "pentatonic" to describe any of the modes. I always thought of these as pentatonic scales myself, but just now I recall having seen it written out somewhere else as a Western natural minor scale.) Most of what I added tonight concerned musical instruments and I broke these down by type (chordophone etc.) And that's about it for this evening. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 03:58, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

azmaribet.com
azmaribet.com has been taken over by cybersquatters and no longer links to Ethiopian music

As a result I have removed it from the external links -- Bandcoach (talk) 08:32, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

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Genre infobox shouldn't be used here
Should be replace to the ones from. Solidest (talk) 12:54, 28 February 2021 (UTC)