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Moravian folk music

Moravian traditional music or Moravian folk music represents a part of the European musical culture connected with the Moravian region of the Czech Republic. Styles of Moravian traditional music vary by location and subject, but much of it is characterized by a specific melodic and harmonic texture related to the Eastern European musical world. According to Czech musicologist Jiří Plocek, Moravia is the area where the European East musically meets the West.[1]

Moravian folk bands are mainly centered on a string section and a large cimbalom, which are often complemented by other instruments. Moravian traditional music influenced Czech classical composers, such as Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana and Leoš Janáček, who was at the forefront of the Moravian folklore movement. Towards the end of the 20th century, Moravian folk music had a noticeable influence on the Czech jazz scene, and folk songs have been adapted into rock bands' repertoires. Today, there are many festivals still held throughout Moravia with performances from traditional bands and dance ensembles.

Love songs – the most numerous category dealing with feelings of love in various forms (joyous songs, sad songs)

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Wedding songs

Recruitment and army songs – including, for example, songs relating to the [13]

Battle of Austerlitz

Central and western Moravia – The traditional music of this large area is oriented rather to Bohemian folk culture.

Northeastern Moravia – Closer to the Carpathian circle of folk culture, the region is influenced by and Polish culture.

Slovak

Southeastern Moravia (southeast of ) – This area has many different ethnographic regions collectively known as Slovácko (Moravian Slovakia). The regions and subregions also encompass the districts of Hodonín and Uherské Hradiště, and partially stretch into the districts of Břeclav and Zlín.

Brno

Moravia is ethnographically divided into approximately ten regions,[14] some of which, Dolňácko for example, are divided further into subregions.

Jízda králů () Festival in Vlčnov[25]

Ride of the Kings

Podluží v písni a tanci (Podluží in Songs and Dance Festival) – held in [26]

Tvrdonice

Annual festivals:[24] The following festivals are held annually unless otherwise noted.[24]

Nejstarší nahrávky moravského a slovenského lidového zpěvu 1909-1912. (The oldest recordings of Moravian and Slovakian traditional folk songs). (GNOSIS Brno, 1998) – phonographic recordings, made by Leoš Janáček and his collaborators.

Ňorkova muzika z Hrubé Vrbky: Drsná pohlazení (ATON, 1999) – a representative selection of recordings from Horňácko region, 1932–1957

Muzika Jožky Kubíka: Dalekonosné husle (Czech Radio Brno and GNOSIS Brno, 1998) – a representative selection of recordings from Horňácko region, 1953–1972

František Okénka: Preleteuo vtáča (GNOSIS Brno, 1996)

Folklore Festival (Supraphon, 1994) – archive recordings from 1946 to 1994.

Strážnice

Václav Harnoš, Jan Gajda a CM Slávka Volavého: Ve Strážnici néni pána (Danaj 2000) – archive recordings (1959–1993)

Majstr Jožka Kubík (ATON, 1999) – archive recordings from Horňácko region

Jan Miklošek (ATON 2000)

Zpěvákovo rozjímání (ATON 2000) – the singer Martin Holý (1902–1985), archive recordings

Jaroslav Kovářík, zpěvák z Kobylí (JK 0001-2431, 2000) – recordings from Hanakian Moravian Slovakia region, 1956–2000

Mezinárodní folklorní festival ve Strážnici (International Folklore Festival in Strážnice), 1995-2000 – published by the Institute of the Traditional Folk Culture in Strážnice, 2000

Plocek, Jiří (2003). Hudba středovýchodní Evropy (in Czech). : Torst. ISBN 80-7215-203-3.

Prague

Brtník, Míla (2004). Zpěvník horáckých písní po lidech sesbíraných (in Czech). : Horácké folklorní sdružení Jihlava. ISBN 80-239-3125-3.

Jihlava

Johnston, Jesse A. (2010). "The Cimbál (Cimbalom) and Folk Music in Moravian Slovakia and Vallachia". The Cimbál (Cimbalom) and Folk Music in Moravian Slovakia and Vallachia," Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society. 36: 78–117. :2027.42/87955.

hdl

Jančář, Josef (2000). Lidová kultura na Moravě (in Czech). Brno: Muzejní a vlastivědná společnost.  80-7275-005-4.

ISBN

Johnston, Jesse A. (2010). "The Cimbál (Cimbalom) and Folk Music in Moravian Slovakia and Vallachia". Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society. 36: 78–117. :2027.42/87955.

hdl

Úlehla, Vladimír (2008). Živá píseň (reprint) (in Czech). Strážnice: Cimbalom band DANAJ in cooperation with National Institute of Folk Culture.  978-80-86156-99-6.

ISBN

Vonrušková, Alena, ed. (2000). Od folkloru k folklorismu: slovník folklorního hnutí v Čechách (in Czech). Strážnice: Ústav lidové kultury Strážnice.  80-86156-35-4.

ISBN

Folklorní mapa Moravy (in Czech). Brno: Gnosis. 2001.  80-239-7594-3.

ISBN

Procházková, Jarmila (2006). Janáčkovy záznamy hudebního a tanečního fokloru I (in Czech). Prague, Brno: Etnologický ústav AV ČR, Doplněk.  80-85010-83-6.

ISBN

Indies Scope, 2012

Antologie moravské lidové hudby - komplet 5CD

Web pages of the National Institute of the Folk Culture in Strážnice

(in Czech)

Folklorweb.cz

List of cimbalom bands (mainly Dolňácko Region)

Wallachian songs and dance ensemble