Russian Ballads
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This Russian folk round song was known at least 2.5 centuries ago, when it became part of the collection of Russian folk songs, but most likely it was born even before that. The music theme of the song was popular among Russian and foreign composers.
Russian ballads suggest that the common people of Russia a. knew that they received better treatment than their counterparts in western Europe. b. did not recognize the difference between serfdom and slavery. c. blamed the Tsar for the terrible conditions under which they suffered. d. used legal means to resolve their conflicts with the nobility.
Russian music also includes significant contributions from ethnic ities, who populated the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and modern-day Russia. Russian music went through a long history, beginning from ritual folk songs and the sacred music of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The ballad usually assumes a distance between the teller and his subject; hence the preponderance of third-person narration. The heroes of ballads, character types rather than carefully etched portraits, act spontaneously and even irrationally, rarely considering consequences.
Two of the ballads in this collection are examples of this type of traditional ballad, anonymous retellings of local legends: the spooky fairy tale “Tam Lin” and “Lord Randall,” which reveals the story of a murder in the question-and-answer dialogue between a mother and son. Folk ballads also told love stories both tragic and happy, tales of religion and the supernatural, and recountings of historical events.
Anna Semenovich (March 1, 1980, Moscow) – Russian pop singer. Interestingly, Anna used to be a figure er. The song “I’ll follow you” is about how a woman lost her head in love.
Romantic ballads have been particularly popular: The most famous example is “Those Were the Days” (the Russian song whose title translates as “By the Long Road”), which was performed by
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