FTX-605 - IDE STOJAN
OD ORANJE
Folkmusic of Serbia
Recordings by Peter Kennedy of the International Foil Music Festival held at
Opatija in 1951. The performers were specially selected as being the most authentic
coming from the most remote villages. After 1950 it was only the professional
Communist ensemble groups approved by the Party leaders, that survived, mainly
for tourist entertainment, while the local customs and music either disappeared
or went underground for the time being.
1.1 IDE STOJAN OD ORANJE Two "sedeljacke"songs by 4 older women from Rasnica,
Pirot. Autumn evenings they gather in front of their houses or at cross-roads,
spinning wool or hemp and singing far into the night. Each verse is sung by
one group, then another and ends with a protracted cry "Stojan is coming from
ploughing and fair Rada from her bleaching" 0.41
2. LETELO PILE This item gives the effect of singing from a distance. 0.33
3. KRALJICE OBREDNE "May Queen"'Ritual by two groups of 4 girls, Krusevica
(Vlasotince). King, Queen, two standard-bearers and a numbder of singing groups
go round the village on St. George's Day (May 6th) and Whitsuntide (thus related
to the "Rusalije" in Macedonia). 'Lado" or "Ljelje" at. the end of the refrain
is thought to refer to the name of old Slavic deities. 2.06
4. TROJANAC Four "Sumadija" kolo tunes played on frula by Mile Radojkevic of
Sopot, Mladenovac. Frula is a 6-hole decorated vertical shepherd pipe played
all over Serbia, but especially here 0.39
5. KOSMAJCICA 0. 35.
6. DJURDJEVKA 0.28.
7. MORAVAC. 0.35
8. ZVOM ZVONCE Shepherd song by Rade Stanisavljev, of Kumane, Zrenjanin, with
gajde bagpipes played by Dobrivoj Ljankov (64) of Pancevo. "What's the bell
that rings?". 2.00
9. VELIKO KOLO Three ritual dances with gajde from Banat-Vojvedina. Agility
display dances, men, wearing black conical hats, dance with a glass of wine
on their heads, and in another with a broomstick. 0.35.
10. NUMERA 0.33.
11. SARANAC 0.45
12. KOLEDARSKE OBREDNE Winter carnival ritual by group from Brza, near Leskovac.
While the "koledars" dance and sing the health of each household, various masked
characters play pranks, blow bark horns, clatter big bells fastened to their
legs (The "Lesnici" are forest monsters). There is also a "snaska" (a man-woman)
who keeps spinning around. 2.06
13. OJ DEVOJKO, CIJE OVCE CUVAS Two girls and two boys call across a mountain
valley, a dialogue between shepherd and shepherdess. From Sedobro, Prijepolje.
1.38
14. ORO Four kolos by a mixed group from Ilalovo, Zajecar, with violin & clarinet. Wallachians, girls with knives in their belts as evil-eye protection,
keep up these dances for several hours at a time. They come from the eastern
part1.54
15. POLOSKA 0.31
16. JUTA. 2.11
17. BANGAVELA These 3 dances are performed by a mixed group from Mokra, Bela
Palanka, with duduk pipe played by Zarije Spasil. The women alternate their
singing with a kind of hissing through their teeth, dancing in close formation
and holding each other's belts. 1.33
18. PESACKA 1.17.
19. OGANJ GORI 1.04
20. LAZARICE Six young girls from Sredska, Prizren go round the houses on Palm
Sunday, blessing the hosts, the home, the family, the cattle, the crops and
even the bees. "Lazarus" is dressed in a man's white shirt, has a hat decorated
with flowers and carries a walking stick. The others, "Lazarke", wear wreaths
of greenery and garlic and carry baskets of eggs. 1.32
21. RUMENKA For dances by a mixed group, Vasilj, Knjazevar, with gajde played
by Gavrila Jelenkovic, have a tradition of alternating quiet and lively kolos,
giving the impression of never touching the ground. 0 56
22. HAJDE, DANO 1. 02
23. CICA GLISINO 1.34
24 KATANKA 1.20
25. VRARANJANKA Four dances by a mixed group from Vranje, E. Serbia, accompanied
by Kurta Ajevajinov (clarinet) and Asirovic ("goc" drum), Achzija (muslim),
women dance in a restrained way, while the men improvise elaborate steps 1.27
26. SOBINKA 1.28.
27. STARI COCEK 0.56.
28. TESKO PEMBE. 0.33
29 & 30. SVJRKA Two tunes on 2 fruli played by Civoin Milivojenic &
Dragisa Simionovic of Aleksandrovac, Pozrevac (both 20 years old) 1.13 & 0.22.
31. BORBA ZA DEVOJKU Two men with tapan and clarinet dance a mock battle in
contest for the hand of a maiden, they draw swords and fight and the winner
dances around his prize. They come from Rugovo, Pec. 2.11
32. MALO BUNJEVACKO KOLO A mixed group of dancers and singers with an orchestra
from Subotica, Backa, the most northern part of Serbia. The women sing while
the men in metal-tipped boots perform elaborate criss-cross steps and clap their
feet together. 2.48
Recorded by Peter Kennedy, September 1951 with the aid of The Yugoslav Council
for Science & Culture. First published on Folktrax cassettes 1977.
