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Cărăbăşasca (f)

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traditional solo piece for a particular instrument

Identical types: 10

Probably best translated as "The bagpiper's tune", which was [and still is?] played on a violin, imitating a Cimpoi; Actually, it is the name of a dance, the melody of which was collected, in Belinţ (Lugoj-Timișoara), by Sabin V(asile) Drăgoi (1894-1968), a Romanian composer, folklorist, and pedagogue; The dance was collected in 1934 by an agricultural worker, Nicolae Pătruca-Giura, who was then 57 years old.

Cimpoiereasca


Sources

Alexandru, Tiberiu: Instrumentele muzicale ale poporului român. Bucureşti, 2014 (Reprint of Instrumentele muzicale ale poporului romîn, Bucureşti, 1956), p.254-255 (ex.62), 319 (idem).

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