Baltic Folksongs

[Waidewut]

"Gaismeņa Ausa" (Light Did Break/Dawn), Performed By Latvian Folk Group "Laiksne". (In Latgalian dialect)
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Folksongs from the Latvian Song Festivals.
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[The Ripper]

Can someone tell me a little bit about this song? I think its brilliant.

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[Waidewut]

It's a song by the folk-group- Vilki, from their album- Dzelzim Dzimu
http://www.vilki.lv/Vilkudiski/Dzelz...alelini-6.html

Šķiramiesi, brāleliņi,

Cērtam cirvi ozolā;

Še palika tēvu zeme,

Še cirvītis ozolā.

Kas ņems manu tēvu zemi,

Lai ņem cirvi ozolā.

Sapūst mana tēvu zeme,

Sapūst cirvis ozolā.

Translation of lyrics-

Lets separate, brothers,
Lets chop the axe in the oak;
Here lays our Fatherland,
Here lays the axe in the oak
Who will take my Fatherland,
Let him take the axe in the oak.
My Fatherland is rotting,
So is the axe in the oak.

The song is based on Latvian folksong number 31997-2

Es, karâ aiziedams,
Cirvi cirtu ozolâ.
Sapūst cirvis ozolâ,
Sapūst mana tēva zeme.

[lI]

Do you actually listen to folk, Waidewut? I do. But NOT to the kind of stuff that you've posted
I quite like the one posted by Ripper though.



However, I like instrumental stuff most of all, here's horn & pan flute music:






This one is probably as authentic as you can get from my country:




Some others to show the variety:

[Waidewut]

Do you actually listen folk, Waidewut? I do. But not exactly the kind of stuff that you posted
I quite like the one posted by Ripper though.

I personally prefer instrumental stuff most of all, here's horn & pan flute music:

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I was waiting for some Lithuanian activities in this thread...
Btw, this song with the horn instrumental music sounds foreign to me, I don't believe Latvians use horns at all, in folk music.

Yes, I listen to folk music, but the ones I posted were the most holy folk songs I could think of, for the Latvian people. The ones most people kind of know by heart.

I like our folk-metal group "Skyforger" .

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[Kryvich]

"Tykiai Tykiai Nemunelis Teka" by Kūlgrinda (a Lithuanian folk group)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=qc8xDBuSh-s

[lI]

Btw, this song with the horn instrumental music sounds foreign to me, I don't believe Latvians use horns at all, in folk music.

Latvians used to have horns too but they fell out of use because new string instruments were imported in 19th century (giga/vienstidzis, basetle, citra also not a string instrument cimbole)

References to folk instruments in folk songs
Folk researchers A. Klotins ir V. Muktupavels counted all the references to folk instruments from K. Baruono song collection ‘Latvju dainas‘'
1. Trumpet (šaknis taur-) – 25,1% out of all songs where any folk instrument is mentioned
2. Flute (stabul-) – 21,3%
3. Zither (kokl-) – 17,7%
4. Drum (bung-) – 17,2%
5. Bow (?) (spēl-) – 14,4%
6. Horn (rag-) – 8,4%

Page 116 (the text is in Lithuanian though...)
http://www.lt-lv-forum.org/files/786...tnografija.pdf


Autochtonous Latvian wind instruments (they're practically the same as the Lithuanian ones, except that your pan flutes are different)


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Some interesting find:

MOST POPULAR LATVIAN FOLK INSTRUMENTS




MOST POPULAR LITHUANIAN FOLK INSTRUMENTS

Do you actually listen to folk, Waidewut? I do. But NOT exactly to the kind of stuff that you posted
I quite like the one posted by Ripper though.

I also like this Latvian stuff:

[Nihtgenga]

I like this Lithuanian neofolk band Vilkduja. What does Vilkduja mean?

[lI]

No way! How come do you know about them??? I always thought that lyrics is their strong side, so, frankly, I'm a bit surprised a foreigner could be into their music.

I LOVE that band!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Vilkduja can mean "fog", "dusk, twilight" or "drizzle".


One of my favourite songs:

[Dacul]

Like it or not,but your folk songs are clearly closed to russian folk songs.
And not closed to scando folk songs.