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A kantele (Finnish:) [1] or kannel (Finnish:) is a traditional Finnish and Karelian plucked string instrument (chordophone) belonging to the south east Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery along with the Estonian kannel, the Latvian kokles, the Lithuanian kanklės, and the Russian gusli.
Robert Wilhelm Ekman - Kreeta Haapasalo Playing the Kantele in a Peasant Cottage. Kreeta Haapasalo, or Kantele-Kreeta (13 November 1813 – 29 March 1893 [1]), was a Finnish kantele-player, singer and folk musician.
It is considered to be a sister collection to the Finnish national epic Kalevala. The poems of Kanteletar are based on the trochaic tetrameter , generally referred to as "Kalevala metre". The name consists of the base word kantele (a Finnish zither -like instrument) and the feminising morpheme -tar and can be roughly interpreted as "maiden of ...
The internationally most known instrument of the family is Finnish kantele, so its name is sometimes used in English to also refer to other Baltic psalteries as well. Many of the Baltic psalteries hold a strong symbolic significance in their respective countries, including Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Russia, where playing ...
The Jouhikko is also called jouhikannel (Finnish: [ˈjou̯hiˈkɑnːe̞l]) or jouhikantele (Finnish: [ˈjou̯hiˈkɑnt̪e̞le̞ʔ]), meaning a bowed [dubious – discuss] kantele. [2] In English, the usual modern designation is bowed lyre, although the earlier preferred term bowed harp [3] is also used. There are different names for the ...
This led to a series of books: Kantele, 1829–1831 (the kantele is a Finnish traditional instrument); Kalevala, 1835–1836 (the "old" Kalevala), an edited collection of epic poems collected orally and representing a mythology for Finland; Kanteletar, 1840; Sananlaskuja, 1842 (Proverbs); an expanded second edition of Kalevala, 1849 (the "new ...
Runic singers from Ladoga Karelia.From left: Iivana Shemeikka, Iivana Onoila, and Konstantin Kuokka. Runic song [a], also referred to as Rune song, Runo song, or Kalevala song, is a form of oral poetry and national epic historically practiced among the Baltic Finnic peoples.
A number of people listen to a kantele playing. This includes the mistress of the house, young women and their children. Leaning in the corner is a pipe-smoking soldier. The environment is simple, related to their everyday chores, and lit by a daylit window. The work reflects an idealized vision of the Finnish nation and its values.