Russian folk

Subject: Russian folk
From:
Date: 17 Oct 98 - 12:24 AM

Does anybody know how can i find the lyrics of these two russian musics, the Volga boatmen and black eyes (otchi tchorniye)? Thanks.

Subject: RE: Russian folk
From: Murray on Saltspring
Date: 17 Oct 98 - 03:29 AM

Do you read Cyrillic? I'm not sure [let's admit it, I haven't a clue] how to post things in the Russian alphabet by email etc., tho I could fax them if that's possible. The songs are actually quite commonly accessible in various books. Otherwise, I can try posting them here in transcription. Okay? Cheers/do svidanija Murray

Subject: RE: Russian folk
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Oct 98 - 04:44 AM

Click here for several Russian folk songs. Many have not been transliterated, so you may have trouble with them.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Russian folk
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 18 Oct 98 - 12:25 AM

If you follow the link above that Joe Offer has created, you'll get many nonsense characters in your browser UNLESS you've downloaded a cyrillic (or other foreign alphabet) font for your browser. But if you have such a font (and can read the foreign alphabet), you'll get readable text.

Subject: RE: Russian folk
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 18 Oct 98 - 08:23 PM

If the second song you are chasing is "Dark Eyes" a klzmer tune in a Minor key, the music for it is also fairly easily available. Can provide a midi tune if you need it.

Have no idea if Klzmer is the correct spelling - someone has been kind enough to correct me before, but it wasn't part of my spelling list at primary school.

Regards
John

Subject: RE: Russian folk
From:
Date: 20 Oct 98 - 04:51 PM

Spaciba, everyone!

Subject: RE: Russian folk
From:
Date: 20 Oct 98 - 05:00 PM

Spaciba, everyone!

I got the Dark Eyes in the link indicated from Joe Offer, and i like to ask to Murray to send or post the Volga Boatmen to me. The Eudora accepts cyrilic fonts to send via e-mail, if you have installed it in your Win. To send via fax, Murray, will cost you a lot, cause i live in Brazil, South America, and it will be considered international call. I like also to thank you again for the help.

Cedric Wilhelm de Paiva, [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Russian folk
From:
Date: 20 Oct 98 - 05:00 PM

Spaciba, everyone!

I got the Dark Eyes in the link indicated from Joe Offer, and i like to ask to Murray to send or post the Volga Boatmen to me. The Eudora accepts cyrilic fonts to send via e-mail, if you have installed it in your Win. To send via fax, Murray, will cost you a lot, cause i live in Brazil, South America, and it will be considered international call. I like also to thank you all again for the help.

Cedric Wilhelm de Paiva, [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Russian folk
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 20 Oct 98 - 05:33 PM

John--the usual transliteration is "klezmer" from the Yiddish from the Hebrew "klee zemer" (literally, "vessels of song"). While Hebrew doesn't always write in the vowels, Yiddish uses the Hebrew alphabet but reassigns values to the different letters so that there ARE vowels in Yiddish.

I grew up in the Northeastern U.S., where Yiddish has invaded English even in non-Jewish households. (And more so in the home in which I grew up. My grandparents spoke Yiddish, and my parents used it when they didn't want the c-h-i-l-d to understand.) But Yinglish (as the late Leo Rosten called it) might not be part of Aussie speech to the same degree. Then again, I heard you folks do use "shikker" for "drunk".

Subject: RE: Russian folk
From: Malena
Date: 20 Oct 98 - 06:03 PM

Hi Charlie, while about 70% of Yiddish words are of German origin, we Germans also use a lot of Yiddish words, as we say "schicker" for drunk, or "malochen" for work, or "pofen" for sleep, "mazel" for luck and so on. It´s not really "Hi-German", more kind of slang and most people who use it would have no idea that that´s Yiddish they´re speaking. This language has been quite extinct in Europe, I got to know it a bit through music, and I love it.

Regards from Germany, Daniel

Subject: RE: Russian folk
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 08:04 PM

I need to find a Mudcat "regular" who can read Russian. If you can help, plese contact me by e-mail.
Thanks.
Joe Offer
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