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Village Harmony: Traditional Songs of the Balkans
1995, Edited by Mary Cay Brass
Notes on the book and CD follow the table of contents and sample tracks (below).
- Introduction
- Ajde cure kolo da vodimo
- Alaj, alaj Jano
- Smiljem gora obrascena
- Crven fesic
- Cvice moje
- Divojka je mileduv brala
- Ej zito zele
- Tri jetrve
- Letovanic
- Majka Maru
- Maramica na stazi
- Cija li je taraba
- Oj djevojko
- Oj livado rosna travo Tri curice zito zele
- Zapevala sojka ptica
- Zora se bjeli
- Podravina Wedding Suite (Oj soncece, Preko Drave, Beljevina)
- Eleno
- More sokol pie
- Ladom se, goro zalade
- Majka Rada
- Ozdolu idu
- Trgnala e malka moma
- Nikolo le Nikolcho le
Additional songs on the CD:
Oj Savice
Dobrudzhanska Pandala
Slavonska Poskocica
About Village Harmony: Traditional Songs of the Balkans
Includes 29 traditional Balkan village songs from Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia and Bulgaria. With full musical transcriptions, translations and pronunciation guide. Mostly transcribed from village sources; but also included are a few Kutev and Lado arrangements. Songs for women's voices as well as for mixed voices. Twenty-three of these songs are recorded on the companion Village Harmony album.