The Music of the Gauls: A Speculation

[@Gaisowiros]

Speaking of music, if you like Folk Ambient/Dungeon Synth, check out my musical project called Alattia (reconstructed Gaulish for "wilderness"). Bandcamp alattia.bandcamp.com/releases KZbin kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmfInoqmhaxjn7M Obviously not historically accurate music but there is spoken Gaulish, pibgorn and bouzouki ;)

[@pnjijy]

Yeahh play that funky music like lug would

[@brigge7830]

Finally, a new video! Have been waiting a long time for this.

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

Continue to make videos, the Gauls need to be known better

[@makadoz]

what is "Canaan Esurix"

[@CelticAugur]

I just found this channel and holy shit so underrated

[@hyperemia61]

Salve Gaisowiros It is wonderful to see you back!

[@CelticDruidTempleOfBeliefsnewa]

Love you're work I too study Gaulish Mythology and other things Linguistist and more and how Pre Indo European myths and Culture inspired them and Latin Culture as well and this video on musical instruments is fantastic

[@joalexsg9741]

This is amazing, thank you so much!

[@dracodistortion9447]

"Bagpipe" is an umbrella term, however. Uilleann Pipes, Great Highlander Pipes, Northumbrian Smallpipes and the various other kinds of European bagpipes are all different and probably sound different than they used to. Also, with uses of lyres and drums and possibly reed instruments in Gaul, perhaps Gaulish music sounded closer to Welsh music with its harps and pibgorns and slower, more softer sounds, unlike uniquely Gaelic music which has that sound of "Celtic" as we think of. I reccomend listening to Pais Dinogad by Ffynnon as a more accurate example of what Gaulish music would have ***more*** accurately sounded like. It isn't 100% but all things considered, it would probably be more close to ancient Gaulish music than a song like Óró Sé Do Bheatha Bhaile.

[@Gaisowiros]

I honestly didn't think about it but you're right, Welsh music is indeed the better candidate in terms of what sounds most similar to what Gaulish music would have been like. Though no bowed lyres, so no crwth, and no fiddles. But as for instruments like the pibgorn and the harp, those are fairly similar to what was available to the Gauls.

[@dracodistortion9447]

@@Gaisowiros well, they do say the Welsh are the closest living people to the ancient Britons. Probably closest to the ancient Gauls too. Great video by the way :)

[@Catubrannos]

Zero evidence for drums, the bodhran itself is likely no older than the middle ages and Irish music historians consider it no older than the 17th century. Maybe a frame drum appeared in Gaul during Roman times but it's lack of existence in later centuries suggests it wasn't very popular in Western Europe until reintroduced during the Middle Ages via the tambourine and similar instruments. Drums really only became a mainstay of Western music styles in the 20th century, within living memory in other words.

[@thegreenmage6956]

@@Catubrannos Sorry, not quite true, there is an Iron Age Hand Drum found in mid-France, and hand drums are very, very easy to make, I swear, go to your kitchen, grab some cling film and stretch over a bowl, tap it and you’ll see, they can be fairly loud, medium volume. I used to do this with an animal skin, you can tie a sinew or something around the bowl and hold the skin in-place. It’s not that we don’t have evidence for percussion or even drums, it’s just that there is very little because ANY bowl found could have been one, especially if it has little holes around the brim. We know Celts are sometimes attested banging on their shields, using hand-clappers, even bells, no we definitely know there was a percussion culture, but animal skins very rarely survive, and you can fashion these drums out of anything. Now, there is some contesting that the Bodhran is ancient, but just because of that doesn’t mean we should disregard the idea altogether. There is a serious self-defacing masochism in Celtic Studies, have some imagination.

[@thegreenmage6956]

@@Catubrannos I have recently heard another assertion: that skins, leather, were drawn across circular containers of food in Scotland and, in some cases, left outside in the rain, perhaps were it was cold and fresh, so that the issuing pitter patter resulted in a drum-like sound and creation even in a domestic context. Drums are in no way unlikely in the ancient Celtic world.

[@whymust7945]

HES BACK!!!!

[@CelticDruidTempleOfBeliefsnewa]

Columbia has a flute like instrument named after the Galician bagpipe that resembles that plus the mythology seems mixed and native languages which is interesting

[@temporaryexistence1974]

Hi, good to see a new video.

[@taethegreat6607]

Do you think there's ever a chance the gaulish language could be revived?

[@colorizedenhanced-silentmo3981]

Hello, Gaisowiros. it's fairly nice looking video. thanks. :)

[@AB-fo3hj]

Viva Gauls

[@hashimbokhamseen7877]

finally

[@MagnumEvolved]

helo