* Adrian Ivaniţchi ( born 1947 ), Romanian folk musician and guitarist

He collected first in the Carpathian Basin ( the then-Kingdom of Hungary ), where he notated Hungarian, Slovakian, Romanian and Bulgarian folk music.

Nasreddin often appears as a whimsical character of a large Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Judeo-Spanish, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Turkish and Urdu folk tradition of vignettes, not entirely different from zen koans.

Additionally, the Museum of the Romanian Peasant and the Village Museum organise a number of events throughout the year showcasing Romanian folk arts and crafts.

Béla Bartók composed the secular Cantata Profana, subtitled " The Nine Splendid Stags " and based on a Romanian folk tale, in 1930.

Old Romanian folk songs sing of a white monastery on a white island with nine priests, nine singers, nine altars, on a part of the Black Sea known as the White Sea.

)" > fulcās, akin to English folk ( French foule, Romansh fulla, Italian folla, Occitan plòc " crowd "; vs. Italian torma, Friulian torme, Sardinian truma, Romanian turmă " crowd ")

" Hora Unirii " is sung on the Romanian folk tune of a slow but energetic round dance joined by the whole attendance.

Very appreciated folk instruments are txistu ( a tabor pipe similar to Occitanian galoubet recorder ), alboka ( a double clarinet played in circular-breathing technique, similar to other Mediterranean instruments like launeddas ) and txalaparta ( a huge xylophone, similar to the Romanian toacă and played by two performers in a fascinating game-performance ).

In Ellwood's view, Eliade's nostalgia was only enhanced by his exile from Romania: " In later years Eliade felt about his own Romanian past as did primal folk about mythic time.

The present-day bands Spitalul de Urgenţă ( Romanian ) and Zdob şi Zdub ( Moldova ) also both merge folk and rock.

Overall, the Romanian folk, in general, could be marked as an underground cultural movement, somewhere between non-aligned and protest music.

" This melody gained wide currency in Renaissance Europe, under various titles, such as the Polish folk song " Pod Krakowem ", Romanian “ Cucuruz cu frunza-n sus ” (“ Maize with up-standing leafs ”) and the Ukrainian " Kateryna Kucheryava.

* Romanian folk costumes

* Lost Trails web site has free downloads of Romanian folk music and Photography of many Romanian villages

Traditional Romanian folk music remains popular, and some folk musicians have come to national ( and even international ) fame.

Conservation of Romanian folk music has been aided by a large and enduring audience, and by numerous performers who helped propagate and further develop the folk sound.

One of them, Gheorghe Zamfir, is famous throughout the world today, and helped popularize a traditional Romanian folk instrument, the panpipes.

The religious musical creation, born under the influence of Byzantine music adjusted to the intonations of the local folk music, saw a period of glory between the 15th-17th centuries, when reputed schools of liturgical music developed within Romanian monasteries.

Wallachia is home to the taraf bands, which are perhaps the best-known expression of Romanian folk culture.

The most widespread form of Romanian folk music is the doina.

Byzantine music notation style in a Romanian " Book of Hymns at the Lord's Resurrection ", 1823

The curved-style pan flute was popularized by the Romanian musician Gheorghe Zamfir, who toured extensively and recorded many albums of pan flute music in the 1970s, and by several other artists who began recording at the same time.

A feature of Romanian Television after 2000 was the boom of specialized channels-such as soap opera and telenovela channels ( Acasă TV, Romantica, Antena 4-Euforia lifestyle TV ), sport channels ( such as Sport. ro and Telesport ), talk channels ( Antena 2 ) news channels ( Realitatea TV, Antena 3 and N24 ), different movie genres or documentary types, and even specializing on different musical styles ( UTV Romania and MTV being geared toward club, dance and hip-hop music, whereas Favorit TV and Etno TV towards folklore, and Taraf TV towards manele ).

One of the most prominent buildings is the neoclassical Romanian Athenaeum, which was founded in 1852, and hosts classical music concerts, the George Enescu Festival, and is home to the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra.

The eclectic pop-rock band Taxi have been gaining international respect, as has Spitalul de Urgenţă's raucous updating of traditional Romanian music.

Traditional Romanian culture, however, continues to have a major influence in arts such as theatre, film and music.

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The music of the anthem was composed by the Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu, originally for the song " Pe-al nostru steag e scris Unire " ( or " E scris pe tricolor unire ").

Klezmer musicians heard and adapted traditional Romanian music, which is reflected in the dance forms found throughout surviving klezmer music repertoire ( e. g., Horas, Doinas, Sirbas, and Bulgars etc.

Much of the traditional klezmer repertoire was written by professional klezmer musicians in the style of their region or tradition, and a lot of co-territorial music such as non-Jewish folksongs, especially Romanian music ( mainly from Moldavia ), as well as Ukrainian music and Ottoman music, and the musics of other minorities living in the same areas as Jews in Southeastern Europe such as Crimean Tatars.

* Playback ( Arabic, Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish ) — lip sync ( in songs ) / Lip-synching in music

* Videoclip ( Arabic, Croatian, Greek, German, Italian, Polish wideoklip, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian видеоклип ) — music video

This music drew its themes from Hungarian, Romanian, Russian and other sources of Romani origin, but was more sophisticated and became enormously popular in places like Budapest and Vienna.

) The lăutarească music is an important part of the Romanian traditional music.

Based on those new songs Nicu Covaci created a new show " Introducere la un concert despre muzica veche la români " (" Introduction to a concert about old Romanian music ") in which he introduced violins, flutes, archaic percussion and other traditional instruments.

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His interests included philosophy, history, music, linguistics, ethnography and geography, and the most important works containing information about the Romanian regions were Descriptio Moldaviae published in 1769 and Hronicul vechimii a romano-moldo-valahilor ( roughly, Chronicle of the durability of Romans-Moldavians-Wallachians ), the first critical history of Romania.

The eclectic pop-rock band Taxi have been gaining international respect, as has Spitalul de Urgenţă's raucous updating of traditional Romanian music.

Wilhelm Grimm collected versions in Serbian, Romanian, Estonian, Finnish, Russian, and German.

Among those influenced were the Russian Alexander Afanasyev ( first published in 1866 ), the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe ( first published in 1845 ), the Romanian Petre Ispirescu ( first published in 1874 ), the English Joseph Jacobs ( first published in 1890 ), and Jeremiah Curtin, an American who collected Irish tales ( first published in 1890 ).

In the 1930s, Eliade edited the collected works of Romanian historian Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu.

He made his first contribution to Romanian drama with the play centered on, and named after, Michael the Brave ( Mihai Viteazul ), one of around twenty new titles for that year — alongside his collected aphorisms ( Cugetări, " Musings ") and a memoir of his life in culture ( Oameni cari au fost, " People Who Are Gone ").

He also mentored German biographer Eugen Wolbe, who collected data on the Romanian kings.

Early in 1890, at the same time as his volume of collected works, Caragiale published and staged his rural-themed tragedy Năpasta — both writings were presented for consideration to the Romanian Academy, in view of receiving its annual prize, the Ion Heliade Rădulescu Award.

This material formed the bulk of his collected short prose volume, Momente şi schiţe, and notably comprised satirical pieces ridiculing the Romanian press ' reaction to the activities of Boris Sarafov, a Macedonian-Bulgarian revolutionary who had attempted to set up a base in Romania.

The Museum also contains a large collection of Jewish ritual objects from Romania, collected by Rabbi Moses Rosen ( 1912 – 1994 ), the late Chief Rabbi of the Romanian Jewry.

He also published collected critical essays under the name Blestem şi binecuvântare ( Curse & Blessing, 2007 ), and, in 2008, " Investigatii mateine ", a biographical essay about the Romanian writer Matei Caragiale.

He collected Romanian folk songs and was one of the principal animators of the 19th century movement for Romanian cultural identity and union of Moldavia and Wallachia.

" He also dabbled in epic poems, collected in the volume " Legende ", and he dedicated a series of poems to the soldiers who participated in the Romanian War of Independence.

During its existence, The Princess Margarita Foundation has collected more than 5 million Euro, through which it has contributed to the development of the Romanian civil society.