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In Romania, the syntagm muzică populară (English: popular/folk music) is used to denote a musical genre based on folklore, but distinct from it.The distinction is both in form and essence and it arises mainly from the commercial aspect of the popular music. [1]
Ciprian Porumbescu on a 2021 stamp of Romania His tomb at San Demetrio church in Stupca. Ciprian Porumbescu (Romanian: [tʃipriˈan porumˈbesku]; born Cyprian Gołęmbiowski on 14 October 1853 – 6 June 1883) was a Romanian composer born in Șipotele Sucevei in Bucovina.
The repertoire of the lăutari include hora, sârba, brâul (a high tempo hora), doiul, tunes with Turkish derived rhythms (geamparaua, breaza, rustemul, maneaua lăutărească, cadâneasca), doina, de ascultare (roughly "song for listening", it can be considered a more complex form of doina), cântecul bătranesc, călușul, ardeleana ...
Transylvania, a historical province in present-day Romania, has been historically and culturally more closely linked to Central Europe than Southeastern Europe, and its music reflects those influences.
Alexandra Irina Măruță (née Mihai; born 23 August 1986), better known by her stage name Andra, is a Romanian singer, songwriter and television personality.Andra began her career at the age of seven, where she had her first performance in TVR's musical competition Tip Top Minitop, singing "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston.
The beginning of the 1960s saw the emergence of numerous bands, many of them initially inspired by the then-popular Cliff Richard and The Shadows: in 1960 Uragani were formed in Rijeka, [1] [2] Bijele Strijele and Siluete, formed in 1961; the Zagreb-based Crveni Koralji and Belgrade's Zlatni Dečaci in 1962; in 1963 two other important Belgrade ...
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. [3] During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced.
Italian popular music is musical output which is not usually considered academic or classical music but rather has its roots in the popular traditions, and it may be defined in two ways: it can either be defined in terms of the current geographical location of the Italian Republic with the exceptions of the Germanic South Tyrol and the eastern portion of Friuli-Venezia Giulia; alternatively ...