MUSIC OF SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE

The 'music of Southeastern Europe' or the Balkans is a type of music distinct from others in Europe. This is mainly because it was influenced by traditional music of the Southeastern European ethnic groups and mutual music influences of this ethnic groups in the period of Ottoman Empire. The music is sometimes characterised by complex rhythm.
Despite the common influences, there are some differences among the region - the music of the Slavic countries differs from the music of Greece or the music of Romania.
The music of the Slavic countries of southeastern Europe is quite significantly different to that the music of Eastern Europe, which includes the Slavic states of the former USSR. The latter was much more influenced by the common eastern Slavic culture, notably by Kievan Rus and more recently the USSR.

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Musical influence

Byzantine medieval music

Traditional Serbian music

Ottoman music

Music per country

Notable artist

Composers

Musical groups

See also

Musical influence

Byzantine medieval music

Byzantine traditional music is associated with the medieval sacred chant of Christian Churches following the Constantinopolitan rite. The development of large scale hymnographic forms begins in the fifth century with the rise of the kontakion, a long and elaborate metrical sermon, which finds its acme in the work of St. Romanos the Melodos (sixth century). Heirmoi in syllabic style are gathered in the Heirmologion, a bulky volume which first appeared in the middle of the tenth century and contains over a thousand model troparia arranged into an oktoechos (the eight-mode musical system).

Traditional Serbian music

The medieval era in Serbia traditional music. During the Nemanjic dynasty, musicians played an important role in the royal court, and were known as sviralnici, glumci and praskavnici. Other rulers known for the musical patronage included Stefan Dušan, Stefan Lazarević, and Đurađ Branković. Medieval musical instruments included horns, trumpets, lutes, psalteries, drums and cymbals. Traditional folk instruments include various kinds of bagpipes, flutes, diple,tamburitza and gusle.

Ottoman music

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Dimitrie Cantemir was a composer of Ottoman music.
Many musical instruments were introduced to the Balkans during the time of Ottoman control, but many Ottoman instruments were borrowed from the locals. Some examples include:

★ The ancient Greek Pandoura was developed as the Ottoman "Baglama Saz" was transformed into the Bulgarian "Tambura"

★ The ancient Greek lyre was adopted as the Turkish Kemence → Bulgarian "Gadulka"

Music per country

★ Music of Albania

★ Music of Bosnia and Herzegovina

★ Music of Bulgaria

★ Music of Croatia

★ Music of Cyprus

★ Music of Greece

★ Music of Moldova

★ Music of Montenegro

★ Music of Romania

★ Music of Serbia

★ Music of Slovenia

★ Music of the Republic of Macedonia

★ Music of Turkey

Notable artist

Composers

★ Pancho Vladigerov (Famous Bulgarian musician and composer)

★ Candan Erçetin (Famous Turkish musician and composer)

★ Goran Bregović (Famous Bosnian musician and composer)

★ Saša Lošić (Sarajevo-born Serb, one of the most recognizable new composers of the Balkans)

★ Petros Gaitanos (Famous Greek musician and composer)

Musical groups

★ Mostar Sevdah Reunion is a sevdah band from Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

★ Gothart

See also

★ klezmer (Eastern European Jewish music)

★ Roma music ("Gypsy" music)

★ Balkan linguistic union

★ Candan Erçetin

★ Balkan World Music