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Thread #46265   Message #1559668
Posted By: GUEST,Chuck the Monk
09-Sep-05 - 07:46 AM
Thread Name: Russian Folk Songs with English translations
Subject: RE: Russian Folk Songs with English translations
The russian text are in the old spelling before the revolution
1917.

So it seems are the tunes. Podmoskovnie (or was it Podmoskowskie)Vechera (Moscow Nights) was composed much later. I have a similiar collection of Russian folk and traditional music for Piano translated to German.

This here collection has some pieces I do not have but many are the same.

Somewere in internet there is a Primer in Garmoschka playing (small squeezebox) with quite a lot of older and more modern pieces. This is written wholly in modern Russian. There is plenty of notesheets.

You might find it by the name of the Writer Londonov.

Pomnio means I remember by the way

Personally I feel that Russion songs, sad and romantic as they are should be in Russian or playd as plain music. There is some not very small loss of atmosphere in translation,