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The zongora is an instrument typical of Maramureș, a region of Romania. [1] [2] It is similar to a guitar, but has fewer strings. [3] In the past it had two strings, but nowadays it has four or even five. [4] When played, the instrument is usually held vertically.
The Romanian Top 100 was also featured in Billboard 's Music & Media magazine until 2003, [6] [7] and was—apart from a weekly Kiss FM podcast in the 2010s—announced on its own website. [3] [8] As of 2024, the Romanian Top 100 lacks usable archives, especially for the late 1990s and 2000s.
The term could be translated literally as "Romanian Easy Music" and, in the most common sense, this music is synonym with "Muzică de stradă" (from French "estrade", which means "podium"), defining a branch of Pop music developed in Romania after World War II, which appears generally in the form of easy danceable songs, made on arrangements ...
[8] [9] Apart from reaching high peak positions and attaining certifications in almost every major music market, "Stereo Love" is the only documented Romanian song to chart in Brazil (number eight), as well as the highest Romanian peak in Canada (number ten in an alternative version released with Canadian singer Mia Martina) and the United ...
They transposed this experience into music and seven days later they shared their local inspired music with the North-Romanian people in a concert held at the Merry Cemetery in Săpânța. [9] Later on, they brought the project to Bucharest, performing the Maramures experience in Radio Hall [10] gaining popularity in the Romanian cultural scene ...
Hora lungă (Cântec lung, Rom., literally 'long song'), is a Romanian regional folksong style characterized by the union of a lyrical text and improvisational melody. [ 1 ] Also called hora lunga or horea lunga, (hora here is derived from the Romanian word meaning 'oration').
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] In English the term is ambiguous since it could also refer to Romanian pop music.
The people in many mountain villages, where each family had a considerable domain, were called free peasants. In Romanian-speaking areas, these were called nămeși [nameshi] or free peasants. The Romanian term indicates belonging to a small clan, from the Romanian neam (bigger old family). This term has been preserved to this day, both in the ...