a r t i s t : Stary Olsa
t i t l e : Muzyka Vyalikaga Knyastva Litouskaga
d a t e : 2007
l a b e l : NMK
g e n r e : Folk
r l s. d a t e : Feb/2008
t r a c k s : 18
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 83,0 MB
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STARY OLSA is a band of mediaeval Belarusan music. It was
founded in 1999 by its present leader Zmicier Sasnouski and
now consists of 5 musicians. It takes its name from a brook in
the west part of Mahilou Region (Belarus).
The bandÆs repertoire includes Belarusan folk balladry and
martial songs, Belarusan national dances, works of Belarusan
Renaissance composers, compositions from Belarusan aulic music
collections (e.g. Polacak Notebook, Vilnian Notebook),
Belarusan canticles of the 16th - early 17th centuries, as
well as European popular melodies of the Middle Ages and
Renascence.
STARY OLSA cooperates with many knightly clubs from Belarus
and Europe, museums and research centres, masters of early
instruments, bands of folk, aulic, sacred and city avital
music, as well as with solo performers using old instruments.
The band's music makes it possible to restore sounding of many
forgotten instruments. STARY OLSA uses for its performances
maximally exact (in appearance, technology and materials)
copies of the age-old Belarusan instruments such as duda
(bagpipe), lira (lyre), husli (psaltery), svirel (pipe),
drymba (jew's-harp), akaryna (ocarina), surma (trumpet),
bierascianaja truba (birch bark trumpet), hudok (rebec) and
baraban drums).
The purpose is to reconstruct completely (whenever possible)
the musical traditions of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania where
Belarus was the basic cultural and geopolitic part in the
13th-18th centuries, and where there was a unique synthesis of
Belarusan folk and aulic music with the European musical
achievements of that time. In order to revive this cultural
feature the band's members mix early Belarusan instrumentsÆ
sounding with the all-European mediaeval instruments such as
lutnia (lute), flejta (flute), mandalina (mandolin), arabski
baraban (Arabian drum).
Besides its own theatricalized concerts, the band performs at
mediaeval culture festivals, spear-runnings and folklore
festivals.
STARY OLSA has recorded 8 albums and 1 musical project. The
bandÆs music is included into 7 collections of old melodies
performers.
Since 2003 the bandÆs dance collective has been working
(JAVARYNA band - page "Javaryna Theatre"). During performances
it acquaints spectators with avital dance traditions.
http://staryolsa.com/
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01-Pesn a Budzine XVII st. [04:54]
02-Grunvaldskaya Bitva XVI st. [07:46]
03-Pahvala Vitautu XV st. [04:30]
04-Rycarstva syshlosya XVI st. [05:33]
05-Favaryt XVI st. [01:31]
06-Prysvyachenne A.Rymshu XVI st. [02:53]
07-Galyarda-Balet XVI st. [02:21]
08-Revel XVI st. [02:57]
09-Bagarodzica XV st. [03:07]
10-Pesn Monarshe vechnemu XVI st. [03:15]
11-Pesnya a knyazyu Vitauce XV st. [02:20]
12-Abarona Krychava XV st. [03:52]
13-Rycar Bayda XVI st. [04:34]
14-U karaleuskim voysku XVI st. [03:37]
15-Tanec Dvorny XVII st. [01:15]
16-Kuranta XVII st. [02:14]
17-Viva XVII st. [00:52]
18-Pryvitalny tanec XVII st. [01:54]
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59:25 min