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Thread #150773   Message #3514586
Posted By: Desert Dancer
13-May-13 - 11:22 AM
Thread Name: Songs, ballads, folklore of Nordic women
Subject: RE: Songs, ballads, folklore of Nordic women
Here are further links from the "Nordic Thoughts" post:

Music of the Inari Sámi of Finland (including yoiks)

Häiden vietto Karjalan runomailla [aka Wedding in Poetic Karjala] (1921) (an hour and 20 minutes!)
'Häidenvietto Karjalan runomailla' - 'A Wedding in the Karelian Songlands'
is not only Finland's first ethnological film, but it is also the country's first extensive
film made with an accompanying musical score. The film produced by the Kalevala
society depicts an archaic wedding in Suojärvi, Border Karelia, on the northern side of
Lake Ladoga. This region, which in the early 1900s was home to kalevala-metre rune-singing,
Karelian ethnic religious practices and the Orthodox faith, has belonged to Russia
since the Second World War. Drawing from two of his earlier operas,
composer Armas Launis arranged the musical score for the film.

(Unfortunately, it's a silent film, so all you get is the score, and not any of the music being depicted.)

~ Becky in Long Beach