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Folk music is the oldest form of Romanian musical creation, characterised by great vitality; it is the defining source of the cultured musical creation, both religious and lay. Conservation of Romanian folk music has been aided by a large and enduring audience, also by numerous performers who helped propagate and further develop the folk sound.
In Romania, the syntagm muzică populară (English: popular/folk music) is used to denote a musical genre based on folklore, but distinct from it. The distinction is both in form and essence and it arises mainly from the commercial aspect of the popular music. [1] In English the term is ambiguous since it could also refer to Romanian pop music.
"Cântă cucu-n Bucovina" or "Cântă cucu în Bucovina" (transl. 'Sings the Cuckoo in Bukovina') is a Romanian folk song, more precisely a doină, composed in 1904 by Constantin Mandicevschi [de; ru; uk]. The lyrics are original, while the melody is a modified Bukovinian mourning song.
Traditionally there are two types of Romani music: one rendered for non-Romani audiences, the other is made within the Romani community. The music performed for outsiders is called "gypsy music", which is a colloquial name that comes from Ferenc Liszt. They call the music they play among themselves "folk music". [19]
Romanian Folk Dances (Romanian: Dansuri populare românești, pronounced [ˈdansurʲ popuˈlare romɨˈneʃtʲ]), (Hungarian: Román népi táncok, pronounced [ˈromaːn ˈneːpi ˈtaːnt͡sok]), Sz. 56, BB 68 is a suite of six short piano pieces composed by Béla Bartók in 1915.
Sentimental music, however, is the most valued, and Romanians consider their doina (a sad song either about one's home or about love, composed like an epic ballad) unique in the world. Maria Tănase is considered to be one of the greatest Romanian folk singers and today Grigore Leșe and Taraful Haiducilor are two of
In Georgia, the tune became widely adopted into traditional folk music repertoire and is known as "Torola" (ტოროლა, the lark) [6] During the communist-era, the Romanian intelligence service operated a numbers station believed to be used by spies in foreign countries. The station known as "V01" became well known for its use of ...
Baladă și joc (Ballad and Dance) (1950) is a short composition for two violins by Hungarian composer György Ligeti, based on two Romanian folk songs.. In 1949, before graduating from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Ligeti spent the year researching folk music in Romania.