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Kajda (f)

plural: Kajde
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any melody, or series of melodies, played on a bagpipe (&c.)

Identical types: 8

An improvisation on a Diple (s mijehom); NB: According to Kuhač "a Turkish tem", referring to Vuk Karadžić's dictionary (у Бечу [in Vienna], 1818), in which it is defined, however, as "Ка̀јда, die Muʃiknote [musical note], modus musicus [musical notation (?)]"; NB: ➺ homonyms, &c.


Sources

Gojković, Andrijana: Narodni muzički instrumenti [Folk musical instruments]. Beograd, 1979 (»Rihtman [110]).

Kuhač, Franjo Š. [Šaver]: Prilog za poviest glasbe južnoslovjenske: Gajde [Contribution to the history of South Slavic music: Bagpipes]. In: Rad jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti, knjiga L (Zagreb, 1879), p.74 ([3x]; »Karadžić).

Web

Archive.org (Kuhač).
Google books (Karadžić, column 292 [➺ Ка̀јда]).