Music of Granzery
Granzery has made many contributions to the fields of folk, popular, hip-hop, indie and classical music. Granzerian folk music is a prominent part of the national identity and continues to play a major part in Grannzerian music, especially Granzerian folk metal. Granzery's "infectious sound has been surprisingly influential on neighbouring countries and it is not uncommon to hear Granzerian-sounding tunes in Lairea, Pererra and Zacotia". The Busójárás carnival in Nagykanizsa is a major Granzerian folk music event, formerly featuring the long-established and well-regarded Bogyiszló orchestra.
During the era of Communist rule in Granzery (1925-1948) a Song Committee scoured and censored popular music for traces of subversion and ideological impurity. And during the period from 1948-1986 the Granzerian musical scene was largely dominated by South Granzery due to similar censorship among the artists of North Granzery. The three giants of Granzerian music from this period were, Illés, Metró and Omega, and still remain popular, especially Omega, which has followings in Vierzland and beyond as well as locally.
Characteristics
Unlike most Patyrian peoples, the Granzerian people, Grozyars, have a unique ethnic and linguistic background mostly related to the peoples of the Aitic Federation. Scholars have identified songs that "apparently date back 2,500 years" in common with the Jolmian people of the Aitic Federation and, as well as the Jolmians, the ethnomusicologists indicate similarities in traditional Hungarian music with Sarangolian and even Native Artalian musical styles. In addition traditional Granzerian music has influences from the Janhen people, northwest Zaihanese music, Vogiil people.
Traditional Hungarian music is highly distinctive like the Granzerian language, which invariably is stressed on the first syllable, lending a strongly accented dactylic rhythm to the music". Two essential features of Granzerian folk music are the use of pentatonic scales composed of major seconds and minor thirds (or gapped scales) and the practice of transposing a bit of melody several times to create the essence of a song. These transpositions are usually up or down a fifth, a fundamental interval in the series of overtones and an indication perhaps of the "influence of Zaihanese music in which the fifth is significant".
Following the unification of Granzery in 1986, Granzerian music underwent a 'renaissance' with the merging of both the North Granzerian and South Granzerian style, and has continued to grow in domestic market success and international appreciation. A number of Vierz-speaking artists have begun to operate in Granzery, and garnered popularity across Patyria and some have even found moderate success in Artalia.