Azumari - Azumari

... The liturgical music of the Ethiopian Church is said to have been created by the legendary 6th-century musician St. Jared, and is still passed down today by professional church musicians called Devteras. One of the important secular music traditions of the Amhara people is the Azmari, a minstrel. A type of street performer who sings impromptu poems to his own accompaniment on a one-stringed fiddle called a masenko, but also serves as servants in the mansions of royalty and nobles seeking patronage, and sings songs praising their masters and songs of entertainment, as well as improvising poems that incorporate information from the streets, social criticism, and religious admonitions. ...

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…　エチオピア教会の典礼音楽は，6世紀の伝説的な音楽家聖ヤレドの創作になるといわれるが，今日もデブテラと呼ばれる教会の専業音楽家によって伝承されている。　アムハラ族の重要な世俗音楽の伝統の一つがアズマリと呼ばれる吟遊詩人である。マセンコと呼ばれる一弦の胡弓で自ら伴奏し即興の詩を歌う大道芸人の一種だが，庇護を求めて王侯貴族の屋敷に下僕として仕え，主人を称賛する歌，気晴しの歌のほかに，巷の情報や社会批判，宗教的な訓戒などを即興詩に詠み込んで歌う。…

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