: At the end of the village he finds the old barefoot hurdy-gurdy man, winding away his tunes, but no one has given him a penny, or listens, and even the dogs growl at him.

With their continuous inclusion of oriental sounds and elements of classical music ( noted for instance by the use of the arrangements of the backup vocals ) and the use of instruments less frequently seen in metal bands, such as bagpipes, shawm, violin, hurdy-gurdy and lute, the band has acquired the label of medieval metal.

A hurdy-gurdy has one or more drone strings.

The term " kobzar " has on occasion been used for hurdy-gurdy players in Belarus ( where the hurdy-gurdy is often referred to as a " kobza ", and bagpipe players in Poland where the bagpipe is referred to as a " kobza " or " koza ".

Perhaps due to its rural character, Limousin has maintained a strong tradition of traditional music, with ancient instruments such as the bagpipe ( called chabrette, Chabreta in occitan ) and hurdy-gurdy remaining popular.

In 1968 Piazzolla wrote and produced an " operita ", María de Buenos Aires, that employed a larger ensemble including flute, percussion, multiple strings and three vocalists, and juxtaposed movements in Piazzolla's own style with several pastiche numbers ranging from waltz and hurdy-gurdy to a piano / narrator bar-room scena straight out of Casablanca.

The hurdy-gurdy was ( and still is ) a mechanical violin using a rosined wooden wheel attached to a crank to " bow " its strings.

The hurdy gurdy or hurdy-gurdy is a stringed musical instrument that produces sound by a crank-turned rosined wheel rubbing against the strings.

The nyckelharpa ( keyed fiddle ) is similar to both a fiddle and a hurdy-gurdy, and is known from Sweden since at least 1350, when it was carved on a gate in a church in Gotland.

Swabian folk music is most popularly represented by acts like Saiten Fell and Firlefanz and the singer-songwriter ( and player of the hurdy-gurdy and guitar ) Thomas Felder.

Planxty is an Irish folk music band formed in the 1970s, consisting initially of Christy Moore ( vocals, acoustic guitar, bodhrán ), Dónal Lunny ( bouzouki, guitars ), Andy Irvine ( vocals, mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, hurdy-gurdy, harmonica ), and Liam O ' Flynn ( uilleann pipes, tin whistle ).

The folk music of Aquitaine is based on instruments like the hurdy-gurdy, boha, flute, accordion, caremèra and violin.

Symphonia ( Greek ) is a much-discussed word, applied at different times to the bagpipe, the drum, the hurdy-gurdy, and finally a kind of clavichord.

French musician Valentin Clastrier ( born 1947 ) is one of the few performers in the world specializing in contemporary music for the hurdy-gurdy ; before Clastrier, the instrument was used primarily in the performance of European Medieval and folk musics.

Leopold Mozart was much concerned with a naturalistic feel to his compositions, his Jagdsinfonie ( or Sinfonia da Caccia for four horns and strings ) calls for dogs and shotguns, and his Bauernhochzeit ( Peasant Wedding ) includes bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, a dulcimer, whoops and whistles ( ad.

Taking Skyclad as an influence, Subway to Sally performs a blend of hard rock and heavy metal " enriched with medieval melodies enmeshed in the songs via bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, lute, mandoline, shalm, fiddle and flute " and combined with " romantic-symbolic German-speaking poetry " in their lyrics.

The most widely used old instruments in the German folk-rock are perhaps bagpipes, pipes, hurdy-gurdy, nyckelharp, and lute, which often are played together with rock guitar, bass and drums.

The band's musical style combines metal with medieval traditional songs, blending the sound of the standard rock / metal instruments with historical instruments ( such as bagpipes, harp, hurdy-gurdy and shawm ).

* Matthias Loibner, inspired by " Der Leiermann ", the last song of Winterreise, arranged the cycle for voice and hurdy-gurdy, and recorded it in 2010 with soprano Nataša Mirković-De Ro.

Street theatre was popular theatre, on an improvised stage with a curtain backdrop, to the music of a hurdy-gurdy and a set of viols.

She plays many instruments on stage, including the accordion, drums, xylophone, hurdy-gurdy, keyboards and organ.

Recent artistic projects concentrating on the Cathar element in Provençal and troubador art include commercial recording projects by Thomas Binkley, electric hurdy-gurdy artist Valentin Clastrier and his CD Heresie dedicated to the church at Cathars, La Nef, and Jordi Savall.

1155 to 1377 the French form symphonie was the name of the organistrum or hurdy-gurdy.

Some bands are also known to highlight more exotic instruments from their ethnic background or country, including Skyforger's use of the Latvian kokle, Metsatöll's use of the Estonian torupill, Korpiklaani's use of the Finnish kantele, Eluveitie's use of the hurdy-gurdy, and Orphaned Land's use of the oud and saz.

Traditional instruments included alphorn, hammered dulcimer, fife, hurdy-gurdy, rebec, bagpipe, cittern and shawm.

The Galician folk revival drew on early 20th century performers like Perfecto Feijoo, a bagpipe and hurdy-gurdy player.

They include hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes, Uilleann Pipes, shawm, nyckelharpa, harp, cittern, tromba marina, hammered dulcimer, Klangbaum, and various types of drums and percussion.

The piano supplies rich effects in the Nature imagery of the poems, the voices of the elements, the creatures and active objects, the rushing storm, the crying wind, the water under the ice, birds singing, ravens croaking, dogs baying, the rusty weathervane grating, the posthorn calling, and the drone and repeated melody of the hurdy-gurdy.

A skeleton parodies human happiness by playing a hurdy-gurdy while the wheels of his cart crush a man.

Primarily a banjoist, he also plays other instruments, including mandola, saxophone, hurdy-gurdy and the guitar.

* Hållbus Totte Mattson – mandora, lute, baroque guitar, moraoud, hurdy-gurdy, accordion, hummel, Swedish dulcimer, vocals.

* Magnus Stinnerbom – Octave Violin, viola, hurdy-gurdy.

* Björn Tollin – tambourine, percussion, hummel, bass mandora, saw, frame drum, string drum, hurdy-gurdy, moraharpa, sampling, vocals.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.

There are various other versions of his transgression: The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and pseudo-Apollodoran Bibliotheke state that his offense was that he was a rival of Zeus for Semele, his mother's sister, whereas in Euripides ' Bacchae he has boasted that he is a better hunter than Artemis:

The main purpose of this work is to give a general account of Aristotelian cosmology and metaphysics, but it also has a polemical tone, and it may be directed at rival views within the Peripatetic school.

Like Bernini's characteristic works, they often express the Baroque aesthetic of depicting dramatic attitudes and emotional expressions, yet Algardi's sculpture has a restraining sobriety in contrast to those of his rival.

The move was seen by some fans as a belated attempt by the D ' Backs to counter the trade by their division rival, the Los Angeles Dodgers, for Boston Red Sox power-hitting OF Manny Ramirez on July 31 and also to compensate for the injuries to Hudson and Byrnes, generally considered two of the more " power-hitting " Diamondbacks on a team which has relied heavily on pitching and defense in recent years.

Anheuser-Busch has placed Budweiser as an official partner and sponsor of Major League Soccer and Los Angeles Galaxy and was the headline sponsor of the British Basketball League in the 1990s, taking over from rival company Carlsberg.

However, this new election could not be held on time due to delay in preparation and has been postponed to October 2006 after an agreement was reached amongst the rival parties.

The Capetian Dynasty has been broken many times into ( sometimes rival ) cadet branches.

Though the Bengals ran it with some success, like the West Coast Offense the scheme became more successful elsewhere, in this case with the rival Pittsburgh Steelers, where LeBeau has served two stints as defensive coordinator.

By extension, it has come to include an extreme and unreasoning partisanship on behalf of any group to which one belongs, especially when the partisanship includes malice and hatred towards rival groups.

Estonia's strategic location has precipitated many wars that were fought on its territory between other rival powers at its expense.

* Although the Government of Ethiopia has allied with local clans in opposition to the Transitional National Government in the past, it currently is supporting the Transitional Government against its main rival, the Islamic Courts Union.

Fatah is generally considered to have had a strong involvement in revolutionary struggle in the past and has maintained a number of militant / terrorist groups, although, unlike its rival Islamist faction Hamas, Fatah is not currently regarded as a terrorist organization by any government.

Fine Gael is generally considered to be more on the political right in comparison to its more centrist rival, Fianna Fáil, but Fine Gael has never governed Ireland without the Labour Party, a social-democratic party on the centre-left of Irish politics.

She is, however, portrayed as being very hypocritical ; in The Invisible Man ( series 1 ), she has no issues with violating peoples ' privacy when she runs a story using a hidden camera to catch shoplifters in a store change room, but is outraged when a rival network violates her own privacy in the same way when broadcasting a similar story.

It has since expanded into ADSL for nearby housing estates, and set up a rival UTMS service.

In Angela Carter's Wise Children, To be or not to be is reworked as a song and dance routine, and Iris Murdoch's The Black Prince has Oedipal themes and murder intertwined with a love affair between a Hamlet-obsessed writer, Bradley Pearson, and the daughter of his rival.

Several years later, rumor tells Deianira that she has a rival for the love of Heracles.

In the eighties, many fighters defected to the rival World Karate Association ( WKA ) because of the PKA's policy of signing fighters to exclusive contracts ; plus, the PKA sanctioned fights exclusively with what has become known as " full contact rules " which permit kicks only above the waist as opposed to the international rules advocated by the WKA which is similar to kickboxing promotions in Japan and other countries in Asia and Europe.

Its strategic location has instigated many wars between rival powers on its territory.

During the Libyan civil war, after meeting with high-level representatives of the Chadian government, United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that N ' Djamena opposes Gaddafi and has reached out to the rival National Transitional Council in rebel-held Benghazi.

By the time of Wisdom, he's the director of MI6 and has been knighted ; he believes MI-13 to be a doomed organisation and that MI6 should handle the " weird happenings ", to the extent of keeping things from the rival agency.

It has been proposed that Gille Coemgáin's death was the doing of Mac Bethad in revenge for his father's death, or of Máel Coluim mac Cináed to rid himself of a rival.

In this context, Mithraism has sometimes been viewed as a rival of early Christianity.