суббота, 14 февраля 2015 г.

Russian folklore: folk songs, Russian chastushka and Russian folk tales

Do you want to know more Russians? Russian folklore (songs, chastuchka, folk tales) tells you about Russians more than anything and anybody else. Listen to Russian folk songs, Russian chastushka and Russian folk tales. You will definitely like that.






Top 10 Most Popular Russian Folk Songs
Have you ever listened to Russian folk songs?
These songs were born more than a century ago. But even today they are included in the repertoires of more and more Russian performers, appear in movies, are played on the radio and simply performed by friends at a campfire.
1) Валенки 
2) Течет река Волга
3) Ой, мороз, мороз
 
4) Виновата ли я
 
5) Только мы с конем
 
6) Темная ночь
 
7) Смуглянка
 
8) Ой, цветет калина
9) Синий платочек
 
10) Ой, кто – то с горочки спустился
Russian folk chastushka
A Russian folk chastushka - is a unique folklore genre of folk music.
It is a short funny song, in most cases it contains of four rhymed lines, which represent the folk genre of oral tradition of the people. As a genre, they have become widespread in the early twentieth century. Young people from rural areas made up a lot of chastushkas and performed them at various festivals. Chastushkas can be accompanied with balalaika or accordion, though often they are sung without music.

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