Balkan music

This is a folk ballade about one of favorite folk heroes "Krali Marko" -  a South Slavic folk hero who was fighting in this song with a Turkish person called "Musa Kesedjia"; I think this is a Serbian song, but there are Bulgaria and Macedonian ones too. This ballade is in the tradition of the folk bards - who were popular in medieval time, complete with the musical insrtument - in Bulgaria it;s called "gusla", and is played with a horse-hair bow on metal strings.


Here some info on Krali Marko, who was a real person, later passed in legends:
"...Marko Mrnjavčević (Serbian Cyrillic: Марко Мрњавчевић, Serbian pronunciation: [mâːrkɔ mr̩̂ɲaːʋt͡ʃɛʋit͡ɕ]) (c. 1335–1395) was de jure the Serbian king from 1371 to 1395, while de facto he ruled only over a territory in western Macedonia centered on the town of Prilep. He is known as Prince Marko (Serbian Cyrillic: Краљевић Марко, Kraljević Marko, IPA: [krǎːʎɛʋit͡ɕ mâːrkɔ]) and King Marko (Bulgarian and Macedonian: Kрaли Марко) in South Slavic oral tradition, in which he has become a major character during the Ottoman occupation of the Balkans...." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Marko

He was also canonized by the Orthodox church:


Here, Krali Marko fighting with Musa Kesedjia /in some versions the latter is called "Crna Arapina" - "Black Arab"/



Edited by Don Quixote - 18-Mar-2012 at 23:16

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Edited by Don Quixote - 21-Mar-2012 at 00:28

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