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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.
Romani people. The Romanian word lăutar ( pronounced [lə.uˈtar]; plural: lăutari) denotes a class of musicians. The term was adopted by members of a professional clan of Romani musicians in the late 18th century. The term is derived from lăută, the Romanian word for lute. Lăutari usually perform in bands, called taraf .
The word veche is a transliteration of the Russian "вече" ( pl. веча, vecha ), which is in turn inherited from Proto-Slavic *vě̑ťe ( lit. 'council, counsel' or 'talk' ), which is also represented in the word soviet, both ultimately deriving from the Proto-Slavic verbal stem of *větiti 'to talk, speak' ). [1]
The Music of North Dakota has followed general American trends over much of its history, beginning with ragtime and folk music, moving into big band and jazz.With the development of mass media, local artists in North Dakota, as in the rest of the country, saw a rapid loss of opportunity to create, perform, and sell popular music to the regional audience that had previously provided a market.
Vama Veche was a Romanian soft rock band, founded in 1996, the same year in which they recorded the song that would become a big hit in Romania the following year, "Nu am chef azi", with their first concert taking place on 28 November 1996 at Lăptaria lui Enache . The third album released by the band was a concept album, suggesting that the ...
The music of Albania ( Albanian: Muzika Shqiptare) is associated with the country of Albania and Albanian communities. Music has a long tradition in the country and is known for its regional diversity, from the Ghegs in the North to the Tosks in the South. It is an integral part of the national identity, strongly influenced by the country's ...
The first Europeans explored the area in the 18th century establishing some limited trade with the natives. Much of the area was first organized by the United States as part of the Minnesota Territory and then the Dakota Territory in the 19th century. North Dakota gained statehood in 1889. The railroads became the engine of settlement growth in ...
Octavian Nemescu (29 March 1940, Paşcani – 6 November 2020, Bucuresti) was a Romanian composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, electroacoustic, multimedia, metamusic, imaginary and ritual works. From 1956 to 1963, Nemescu studied at the National University of Music Bucharest – composition with Mihail Jora, harmony with Paul Constantinescu ...