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The music of the Balkans is known for complex rhythms. Macedonian music exemplifies this trait. Folk songs like "Pomnish li, libe Todoro" (Помниш ли, либе Тодоро) can have rhythms as complex as 22/16, divided by stanza to 2+2+3+2+2+3+2+2+2+2, a combination of the two common meters 11=2+2+3+2+2 and 11=3+2+2+2+2 (sheet music).
Excavations in Macedonia have discovered musical instruments similar to the aulos as early as the Neolithic Era and throughout classical antiquity. The Ancient Macedonians enjoyed similar music to the rest of the Ancient Greeks and Alexander the Great and his successors built odea for musical performances in every city they built, from Alexandria in Egypt to cities as distant as Ai-Khanoum in ...
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Po tebe is one of the most successful Balkan albums ever. It topped music charts for months in Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Božilak (Rainbow) was a compilation of 14 selected traditional Macedonian songs arranged by Saša Nikolovski Gjumar, Ilija Pejovski and Soni Petrovski. The artist was backed up by a ...
The songs were collected by him during his time as a Serbian ethological agent in then-Ottoman town of Serres (today in Greece). The collected material was from the eastern parts of the Macedonian region. [6] The title, preface, notes and explanations of the songs are in Serbian, and at the end there is an explanation of some unknown words in ...
Musically, the album is similar to its predecessor; the songs are characterized by elements of Macedonian traditional music, but are adapted to a modern style which is contemporary at the time of the release of the album, thus intertwining pop and jazz elements. The lyrics cover emotional states of sadness, happiness, love and longing ...
[note 1] The second album achieved similar success, being acclaimed by Macedonian music critics and becoming the best-selling album in the country in the year of its release. [9] It was promoted through numerous concerts in North Macedonia and Serbia in 2014 and 2015, during which songs from Makedonsko Devojče 1 were also performed.
The right to participate in the project was preserved to citizens of the Republic of Macedonia. The applied composition had to be a traditional Macedonian song, but with new arrangement. The best remakes were awarded by being included in the compilation. 14 traditional songs were sung with new arrangement by the most famous Macedonian singers.