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A short history of Music written by the participants
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Essays about the national and folk music
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Latvian Musical Folklore


How Latvian nation herself remember it always song. Song in celebrations, in hours of idleness and at work. In songs people enounced different feelings, rackets.

Latvian musical folklore blanket folk-songs. Texts of songs never declaimed, its song or delivered. Words of deliver songs more enounce, summon than sing. These melodies usually have contracted extent. Songs of sing melodies whereas are explicated. Each song was colligated with concrete poetic and practical requirement. Each folk-song in dependence from kind of performance, content of text, distribute in groups:

Songs of growth ring ways
Songs of family celebrates
Songs of work
Plays and dancing

In every group more admit different genre and style melodies. Couple from those genres:
* Lullabies
* Songs about singing. Its utter delight about resonant voice. Its usually sing outdoors. 
* Songs of spring adornment. Usually sing in horde.
* Herdsmen's songs. Original is herdsmen's convocation with exultations.

Upwards 30000 notes of folk-songs melodies are save in Latvian funds of music.

 Alise from Latvia <aliv_lin@yahoo.com>

Project Description A short history of Music written by the participants Essays about the favourite music Essays about the favourite singer
Essays about the favourite composer Essays about the national and folk music What means music for me? Main page