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The Macedonian music is extremely singable and always awake emotions of every person who listens it. Macedonian Music that follows traditional dances is very strong and so amazing that make you fall in love in every song. Macedonian dances are very dynamic and provide its listener and auditorium to feel and learn events of past, performed to present the most beautiful gems of Macedonia's folk treasury. Macedonian folklore best describes the strongly positive and highly sensitive soul of people of Macedonia.
Music of the Republic of Macedonia and the Macedonians has many things in common with the music of neighbouring Balkan countries, but maintains its own distinctive sound.
Folk music
The ethnic Macedonian folk music includes:
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Newly-composed folk music
Traditional Music & Dances
Traditional Music
The ethnic Macedonian traditional music, which can be rural or urban (starogradska muzika), includes: lyric songs, epic songs, labour songs, ritual songs, humorous songs, circle dance ("oro"), the old urban style called Čalgija etc.
Popular traditional songs are: Kaleš bre Angjo, Slušam kaj šumat šumite, Biljana platno beleše, Dafino vino crveno, Narode Makedonski, Zemjo Makedonska and many others.
Often referenced oro dances are Teškoto from the village of Galičnik, Kalajdžiskoto, Komitskoto (The Dance of the freedom fighters) and others. An internationally acclaimed professional folklore association is the award winning "Tanec".
The music of the Balkans is known for complex rhythms. Macedonian music exemplifies this trait. Folk songs like "Pomnish li, libe Todoro" (Помниш ли, либе Тодоро) can have rhythms as complex as 22/16, divided by stanza to 2+2+3+2+2+3+2+2+2+2, a combination of the two common meters 11=2+2+3+2+2 and 11=3+2+2+2+2 (sheet music). In order to add tension to notes, musicians (primarily from older schools) will add the distinctive characteristic of stretching out beats.
The gajda (гајда), a type of bagpipe, was the most common folk instrument in traditional Macedonian culture. It has now become an instrument for concert recitation, drawing on recent legends like Pece Atanasovski (video), leader of the Radio Skopje ensemble Ansambl na Narodni Instrumenti, as the source of modern tradition. Other instruments include:
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zurla (зурла) — large double-reed horn
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tapan (тапан) — cylindrical drum
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harmonika (хармоника) — accordion
Macedonian folk orchestras consist of a clarinet or saxophone, drum kit, bass guitar, accordion and guitar, sometimes with modern synthesizers and drum machines. These orchestras are very popular in Macedonia. Popular members are virtuoso musicians Skender Ameti and Goran Alachki on accordion and Miroslav Businovski on clarinet.
Chalgija is an urban style, played by bands (Čalgii) with a dajre (tambourine) and tarabuka (hourglass drum) providing percussion for ut (lute), kanun (zither), clarinet and violin. Though modern musicians have updated the Čalgija into a spectrum of hard and soft, classical and pop sounds, some traditional musicians remain. Perhaps the most influential of recent years was Tale Ognenovski, who plays a wide variety of traditional and modern sounds.
Usually Macedonian folk dances are very fast-paced dance with energetic movements; usually these types if dances are performed st gatherings. This dance is a fast paced, with stomping steps (Kopacka, Berovka ,Ratevka, Malesevka, Arnautsko) , it is usually preformed during religious holidays (Bozik, Vodici, Veligden, Gjurgjovden, Spasovden, Petrovden), state holidays and weddings, usually in the center of the village, in front of churches, schools and houses.The dancers form in a circle and hold together in several ways: by hands, by shoulder, by the waist, under arm and by arms down. Each dancer performs the same movements and steps, usually to the right, except in certain dances, which are performed to the left.
Macedonian folk dances abound in choreographic movements: pivot turns, dropping to knees, jumps, hops, vertical movements, crossed steps, side steps, accented steps, kneel dancing and many others.Change in the rhythm is a characteristic of many folk dances: fast, slow and a transitional part.
Macedonian Traditional Dances
"Teshkoto" Dance
"Pajdushko" Dance