Songs of the Serbian People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Songs of the Serbian People write by Milne Holton. This book was released on 2014-06-27. Songs of the Serbian People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early nineteenth century, Vuk Karadzic, a Serb scholar and linguist, collected and eventually published transcriptions of the traditional oral poetry of the South Slavs. It was a monumental and unprecedented undertaking. Karadzic gathered and heard performances of the rich songs of Balkan peasants, outlaws, and professional singers and their rebel heroes. His four volumes constitute the classic anthology of Balkan oral poetry, treasured for nearly two centuries by readers of all literatures, and influential to such literary giants as Goethe, Merimee, Pushkin, Mickiewicz, and Sir Walter Scott.This edition of the songs offers the most complete and authoritative translations ever assembled in English. Holton and Mihailovich, leading scholars of Slavic literature, have preserved here the unique meter and rhythm at the heart of Serbian oral poetry, as well as the idiom of the original singers. Extensive notes and comments aid the reader in understanding the poems, the history they record and the oral tradition that lies beneath them, the singers and their audience.The songs contain seven cycles, identified here in sections titled: Songs Before History, Before Kosovo, the Battle of Kosovo, Marko Karadzic, Under the Turks, Songs of the Outlaws, and Songs of the Serbian Insurrection. The editors have selected the best known and most representative songs from each of the cycles. A complete biography is also provided.
Songs of the Serbian People
Songs of the Serbian People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Songs of the Serbian People write by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić. This book was released on 1997. Songs of the Serbian People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early nineteenth century Serb scholar Vuk Karadzic collected and published now classic transcriptions of Balkan oral poetry. This edition, by taking great care to preserve the unique meter and rhythm at the heart of Serbian oral poetry as well as the idiom of the original singers, offers the most complete and authoritative translations ever assembled in English.
A Brief History of Serbian Music
A Brief History of Serbian Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Brief History of Serbian Music write by Basil W. R. Jenkins. This book was released on 1998-11. A Brief History of Serbian Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 and the destruction of Serbian nationhood, 500 years of Ottoman slavery ensued in the Balkans with the inevitable decline of the Serbian Orthodox faith and music. During this Turkish occupation, Serbs were forbidden to own property, to learn to read and write and were even denied the use of musical instruments. The Serbs however were tenacious and maintained an oral history through folk poems and songs. The only defenders of Serbian art and culture in these difficult centuries were the peasants who played the Gusle, a one-stringed instrument. As their punishment for playing a musical instrument many of these musicians were blinded by their oppressors resulting in thousands of such punishments. Being denied the right to music or dance, the Serbs invented a silent kolo (dance) in which the syncopation of the pounding feet became a sort of musical accompaniment to the dancers. This dance is still performed today by Serbian people.The great poet and dramatist Goethe so loved the Serbian people, their poetry and folklore that he learned to fluently speak their language. Goethe was also the major influence in encouraging Brahms, Loewe, and Josef Maria Wolfram to create musical compositions based on Serbian folk poems and literature. Brahms' famous lullaby is derived from a Serbian folk poem.When the Jews fled Spain the Serbs provided a hospitable environment in which the Jews resettled and prospered. The oldest Jewish Choir in the modern world is in Belgrade.The formation of the Pancevo Church Choral Society in 1838 and the Belgrade Choral Society in 1853 resulted in each becoming centers for nurturing young talent. The first music schools were founded through the efforts of these choral societies. The Brilliant work of Serbian composers like Bajic, Stankovic, Mokranjac, Marinkovic, maksimovic, Djordjevic and Binicki accomplished in a hundred years what other cultures had the luxury of creating in several centuries. This books covers the history of over 40 of these composers.
Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians
Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians write by Woislav M. Petrovitch. This book was released on 1914. Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of Serbian folk tales preceded by background to the history and cultural traditions of the Slavic people, including short essays on good and evil spirits, vampires, superstition, Christmas Eve, wedding rites, etc.
Serbia Crucified
Serbia Crucified - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Serbia Crucified write by Milutin Krunich. This book was released on 1918. Serbia Crucified available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
