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Russian spoons are used for traditional folk music in Russia (on YouTube) In the 1960s, folk music in Russia continued to receive significant state support and was often seen as the antithesis of Western pop music. The fact that numerous Soviet folkloric ensembles were invited for foreign tours raised the prestige of the folk performer to that ...
Balkan folk music is the traditional folk music within Balkan region.In South Slavic languages, it is known as narodna muzika (народна музика) or folk muzika (фолк музика) in Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Serbo-Croatian, and alternatively narodna glazba in standard Croatian, and narodna glasba in Slovene.
Greek folk music includes Demotika, Cretan and Nisiotika, Pontian, Laiko and Rebetiko.Greek music developed around the Balkans as a synthesis of elements of the music of the various areas of the Greek mainland and the Greek islands, with Greek Orthodox ecclesiastical chant, and a reference to music of Crete and Byzantine music.
For example, whereas Brahms made use of actual Hungarian folk melodies, Dvořák only made use of the characteristic rhythms of Slavic folk music: the melodies are entirely his own. Simrock was immediately impressed by the music Dvořák produced (originally for piano four hands), and asked the composer for an orchestral version as well.
Originally, it was the diminutive form of the Ukrainian term duma, pl. dumy, "a Slavic (specifically Ukrainian) epic ballad … generally thoughtful or melancholic in character". [1] Classical composers drew on the harmonic patterns in the folk music to inform their more formal classical compositions. [citation needed]
A number of Slavic folk music instruments have names which are related to Gusli such as the Czech violin housle and the Balkan one-stringed fiddle gusle. In western Ukraine and Belarus, husli can also refer to a fiddle or even a ducted flute. The violin-like variant of the instrument is also related to the South Slavic gusle.
Pages in category "Russian folk songs" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ah Vy, Seni, Moi ...
Vesna (pronounced; named after the Slavic goddess of spring) [1] is an all-female folk band based in the Czech Republic, consisting of five members (three Czech, one Slovak and one Russian). [2] The band represented the Czech Republic in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 with the song " My Sister's Crown ", finishing in the top ten in the grand ...