WITH SLOVENE FOLK SONGS AND
INSTRUMENTS THROUGH SLOVENE REGIONS
»THE SOUND IMAGE OF SLOVENIAN SOUL«

(the TRUTAMORA SLOVENICA quartet)





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PREKMURJE

She Was Walking To-and-Fro – two-part singing, small cimbalom, wooden cross flute/žvegla »nine«
When I Was a Schoolboy (a song from Prekmurje-Štajerska) – panpipes, wooden cross flute/žvegla »six«
Agnes Would Weed Millet – two-part singing, wooden cross flute/stranščica
Drmač (dance) – drone zither/švrkovence, earthenware pot basses
A Colourful Saika Ship Sails the Waters – two-part singing, wooden cross flute/postranica
Wheat Is Ripe – the Prekmurje band of musicians: small cimbalom, trumpet, flute, little bass

KOROŠKA

The Bistrica Is Really Cold – three-part singing
Carinthian jaw harp playing – jaw harps
From Klagenfurt to the Drau – vocal, wooden cross flute/žvegla »six«
When We Come to Ojstrnk – two-part singing, two wooden cross flutes/žveglas »nine« and »six«, wooden scraper/škrtovka, simple percussion instrument/tukalca, gourd
From the Country of Levant (the Magi carol) – four-part singing
We Have Come and We Shall Go – three-part singing, harp zither, little bass, earthenware pot bass

GORENJSKA

Štajeriš (dance) – violine zither, wooden cross flute/žvegla »five«, violoncello, jaw harp
Who Is Sleepy, Go to Bed (narrative song) – two-part singing, bagpipe
Iron-Shod Witch – two vocals, drone zither/drsovce, kneading-trough as percussion instrument
Song of a Night Guard – vocal, cow horn
Nurserymaid Dove – two vocals, bagpipe
Shine the Sun, Shine – two-part singing, harp zither

WEST SLOVENIA

Saint Nicholas and the Devil – recitative two-part singing
Jesus Has Risen from the Dead (an old Easter-time song) – two-choir canon
Istrian Tune – wooden double flute/šurla
St. Thomas and the Death – two vocals, drone zither/drskalca, gourd
Pharaonica, the World-Bearer Fish (cosmogonic myth) – two vocals

RESIA

When You Came up to Kilo – three-part Resian gutural singing
Birdie Janičica – (Christmas lullaby) – two-part singing, clay ocarinas

BELA KRAJINA

Mid-Winter Bonfire Tune – wooden double flute/dvojnice
Three Sisters in Law – gutural two-part singing
We Are the Three Magi (the Magi carol) – vocals, bagpipe
Bramble Has Grown – clay ocarinas
Marguerite (wedding narrative song) – two-part singing
All the Wreaths Have Withered – three-part singing, tamburitza ensemble: melodic tamburitza/bisernica, chordal tamburitza/brač, tamburitza bass

DOLENJSKA

Sotiš (dance) – violine zither, little bass
Ballad about a Milkmaid – vocal
Everything Will Be Wrong with Us – two-part singing, »devil's drum«, simple one-string bass/bumbas, drum

ŠTAJERSKA

A Tune from Haloze (dance) – panpipes, wooden cross flute/žvegla »six«, earthenware pot bass
Run Clear Water, Run – wooden cross flute/žvegla »nine«
Graze Little Cow, Graze – (children's folk song) – two-part singing, wooden cross flute/žvegla »six«
Shepherdess with a Jaw Harp (sung fairy-tale) – vocal, cow horn, two jaw harps, little stones, nut »castanets«

PORABJE S PREKMURJEM

Tan kre Čurča – voice, clay ocarina
Sing for Me Blackbird, Sing – vocal
The Galley Sailed the Seas two-part singing, wooden cross flute/žvegla »nine«
The Woodpecker Is Daughter-in-Law – drone zither/cítera, two combs, mirliton
Litanies for Good Fortune (Christmas carol) – vocals