VA - Folk Music of Rumania
From the collection of Bela Bartok
Ethnic Folkways [FW 4419, 1951]
01 Folk Dance in Hora Style (Orchestra) - Untraced
02 Folk Dance in Hora Style (Orchestra) - Untraced
03 Love Song; Doina - Untraced
04 Tragic Romance; Doina - Untraced
05 Lament for Dead Mother; Bocet - Untraced
06 Lament for Dead Husband; Bocet - Safra Bion Racu
07 Braul; Sarba Din Brau; Village Folk Dance (Orchestra) - Untraced
08 Wedding Dance - Untraced
09 Braul - Ion Papuc
10 Lament for Dead Husband; Bocet - Untraced
11 Lament for Dead Brother; Bocet - Untraced
12 Hora; Girl's Song - Untraced
13 Lament for the Dead; Bocet - Leontina Niga and Triganuca Nemciu
the romanian national dance is the hora. it is a circular dance with many varieties & 1, 546 known names. the musicains play in the middle of a circle & the dancers sing the verses repeatedly. the dance has become symbolic of national brotherhood & unity.
an important place in rumanian folk music is held by the laments for the dead, the designation for which is boget. the women who are called to the funerals to bewail the dead are called bogitorre. relatives sometimes sing the lament but there are professional wailers who possess a rich repertory of laments. mostly they're sung sans acompaniment but sometimes the voice is supported by a counterpoint flute.
the professional musician who for centuries has stored & continues to store the treasure of romanian folk music is the laotar or folk violinist who is also his own vocalist. a group of lauotars forms a taraf. these musicians are not to be confused with gypsy fiddlers & although a great them are gypsies. the musique they play is rumanian folk music. the word lauotar is derived from lauta meaning lute. their musicianship is highly developed & the best of these performers are true artists in their field.
the laoutar loves, plays & preserves with deep devotion the folk music of rumania. it was he who gave the collectors of folk music most of the material which enabled composers & musicologists to study this vast treasure of songs & dances which became the foundation of the work of practically every rumanian composer from the middle of the 18th century to this day.
i heard about these recordings many moons before i finally laid me ears on em. very fortunate i did. awesome fiddlin, pipin wedding songs, lovelorn ballads & mournful laments for the dead; can't go wrong. liner notes lovingly enclosed. daps to lemmy caution
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