Balkan Refrain - Form and Tradition in European Folk Song

Informationen zum Autor By Dimitrije O. Golemovic Klappentext Balkan Refrain studies various aspects of the refrain, such as its origin, development, forms, and use in traditional and popular music. It attempts to establish what refrain actually is and how it can be defined in folk and scholarly practice based on musical examples from Serbia, Montenegro, and the Republic of Srpska, with the aim of finding general rules applicable to refrains in the songs of other nations. The refrain is observed from musical and linguistic perspectives, as well as its religious, social, and economical uses. The book includes an audio CD featuring traditional folk songs as well as some examples of newly composed folk songs.

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• Authors: Dimitrije Golemovic, Dimitrije O Golemovic, Dimitrije O. Golemovic
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2010
• EAN: 9780810867376
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-6737-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Europea: Ethnomusicologies & Modernities; Europea: Ethnomusicologies and; Europea: Ethnomusicologies & Modernities; Europea: Ethnomusicologies and
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory