Talk:Romani music

Lelo nika accordeonist 100% romani. 3 times World champion — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.198.142.42 (talk) 05:52, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

Improvement Drive
Roma people has been nominated to be improved on the Improvement Drive. Support this article with your vote and help us improve it to featured status!--Fenice 10:30, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Could someone expand this article to include the impact Roma music has had on classical music? Liszt wrote a whole book about Hungarian Gypsy music, Bartok and many others were influenced by it, many Hungarian Roma were sent to study music in Vienna ... I don't know much, but I think it is clear Roma music has had a considerable influence on the development of Western classical music / composition, I think it also introduced the concept of the "virtuoso" to that tradition ... and I would love to know more about it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raviolix (talk • contribs) 16:06, 15 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Telemann also had a lot of interest and influence of Gypsy music. I might have some info laying around somewhere in the house, not sure... Aszazin (talk) 20:13, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Music Theory
Could someone:))))) knowledgeable update this article to include information on the theoretical aspects of the music, such as the scales, rhythms and chord changes common in the music? PipOC 19:33, 17 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Would definitely very interesting, indeed. Aszazin (talk) 20:11, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

I would like to see this too, a musical look at Romani music. Especially the improvisational aspects of Romani music. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.187.154.33 (talk) 19:59, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Roma origins: DNA Evidence
http://dnatribes.com/sample-results/dnatribes-sample-romany.pdf


 * 1) ^ Kenrick, Donald (1998). Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-3444-8.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_R2_(Y-DNA) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adam Holland (talk • contribs) 15:57, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Roma version of Ghatam?
I saw an Indian percussion ensemble playing recently and the group was led by someone playing the ghatam. I was particularly struck by the similarity of the sound to an instrument I've seen played by Roma groups in Slovakia and Hungary, which I can best describe as an aluminium milk-churn. Is there a particular name for this instrument? Anyone have any ideas on whether this is an improvised ghatam or actually a instrument crafted from metal for the same kind of effect? Jimjamjak (talk) 10:19, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

The "Wandering musicians in the wine gardens of Transylvania" are not Roma!
There is a picture in the article: "Wandering musicians in the wine gardens of Transylvania (Pennell, 1893)". How exactly did this picture end up in this article? Does anyone have any proof that those musicians are Romani musicians? Unless there is proof for this, the picture should be removed! I am absolutely positive by the clothes they are wearing that those people are not Roma! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.102.35.241 (talk) 20:17, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Date error in part about Romani music in Hungary?
It reads

"Although Romani musicians in Hungary were mentioned in books since the 15th century, musicianship as an occupation didn't become widespread among the Roma until the latter half of the 18th century. The Roma started to develop an ethnic music culture from the  1970s  and they obtained national minority status in Hungary. Two famous Romani musicians of the 18th century were Mihály Barna and Panna Cinka."

Shouldn't this be 1770s? Given it is mentioned in the context of the 18th century? Aszazin (talk) 20:09, 9 July 2024 (UTC)