A weird bit of news this morning - Chechnya has apparently banned performing music slower than 80bpm or faster than 116bpm.
I honestly had to check the date on the article to see if it was legit.
artists are said to have been given until 1 June to rewrite music that doesn't meet the criteria - and if their music isn't reworked, they won't be allowed to perform it in public.
Re: Chechnya bans music that's too fast or too slow
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:23 am
by BGuttman
Europeans like to march to slower tempos. They make it nice for us geezers to march as well. Colonel Bogey goes nicely at 108. For that matter, so do a lot of Sousa Marches. You don't have to "high step".
Btw, date is 4/7, but they refer to a posting "earlier in the week" (Fool?)
Re: Chechnya bans music that's too fast or too slow
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:03 am
by bitbckt
RB Hall had a limp and subsequently his marches should also be somewhat down tempo, as his band played at his speed.
Re: Chechnya bans music that's too fast or too slow
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:05 am
by harrisonreed
112-116 is the typical marching tempo for US military bands, FWIW.
Re: Chechnya bans music that's too fast or too slow
But there was another quote from the Ministry from Telegram. Which I don't have, so can't check for the date of that quote.
So it looks like it's no fool!
Re: Chechnya bans music that's too fast or too slow
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 8:03 am
by ghmerrill
I'm just trying to get my mind around what appears to be an example of woke conservative Chechen culture.
Re: Chechnya bans music that's too fast or too slow
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:17 pm
by brassmedic
The police will now be armed with metronomes.
Re: Chechnya bans music that's too fast or too slow
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:31 pm
by cb56
Like playing in a giant line dance club
Re: Chechnya bans music that's too fast or too slow
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2024 12:11 pm
by Posaunus
The Chechnyan Taliban?
Re: Chechnya bans music that's too fast or too slow
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2024 1:42 pm
by AtomicClock
mgladdish wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 1:58 am
slower than 80bpm or faster than 116bpm
Shatlak's Song (the national anthem of Chechnya) is either 75-ish or 150-ish, depending on whether you count it in two or four. At least, that goes for the copy on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatlak%27s_Song
Re: Chechnya bans music that's too fast or too slow
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:41 pm
by harrisonreed
I'm surprised an individual state has that much autonomy in Russia to ban tempos of music. But, maybe they do. And that's what makes this even funnier, right across the border in Georgia:
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