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SLOVAK FOLK DANCES

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This book is in Slovak.

It contains:
Map of folklore regions of Slovakia

Detailed choreographies and songs including music sheets from following regions:
ZEMPLIN, GEMER, LIPTOV, GORAL, PODPOLANIE, MYJAVA, SARIS AND SPIS, NITRA AND TEKOV, HONT, NOVOHRAD AND ZVOLEN, TRENCIN AND KYSUCE, PODUNAJ AND ZAHORIE.

The text is supplied with 106 color photographs, 159 black and white photographs of the folk dress, folklore groups, prominent dancers and musicians in the authentic version; 388 black and white photographs of the dance motives performed by the members of some outstanding ensembles, 174 songs and folk scores, the folklore map of the Slovakia.

The work The Slovak folk dances is the complex and systematic publication from the sphere of the Slovak dance folklore and with it close associated kinds of the folk art, which were developing together with the dance, were influencing each other and formed often one entirety.
This work is the result of the needs and requirements of all those who are concerned with the folk dance and the folk art. It represents the picture of the past expressing that the Slovak folk dance and the folk art have kept substantially the form of the classic art because their characteristic elements can be found in all periods of the development and are preserved until the present time.
With the aim of saving our cultural heritage (folk dance, music, songs, dress) for the contemporaries and the future generations in its full beauty, the authors pass to the readers with high professionalism their life long knowledge and experiences acquired in research and professional work in the folk ensembles.
In the first chapters of the book the general characteristics of the dance folklore, the musical folklore and the folk dress in the Slovakia is presented so as their samples have been preserved for us since the old times until those of the beginning of the 20th century.

In the next part twenty folklore regions are presented in detail: the regions of Zemplin, Gemer and Horehrome, Liptov, Tatra’s highlanders, Polana, Myjava, Saris, Spis, Nitra, Tekov, Orava, Turiec, Hont, Novohrad, Zvolen, Trencin, Kysuce, Danube lowlands and Zahorie. The complete typical picture of the separate regions is offered. The location, settlement, the survey of many known dances, descriptions of the dances, musical folklore, folk dress. At those regions where the most peculiar Slovak dances originated, also the detailed descriptions of the dance motives are given.

The work is intended for all who admire the folk dance, especially for the dancing masters, young people who attend dancing schools, the amateur and professional dance ensembles. It will be of good use for the choreographers, dress designers and for all those who are engaged in the folklore and want to acquire further professional knowledge and experience in this sphere. But certainly it will please everybody who is interested in the beauty of the Slovak folklore, its richness and variety.

We believe that the book will inspire all its readers with admiration for the creation of unknown folk artists of the long and the recent past. At the same time it will help all bearers of the traditions to keep and propagate the most beautiful jewels of the Slovak national culture.

The hard cover book is available now 

US$119.50
plus US$13.95 shipping and handling
TOTAL US$133.45

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Vladimir Linder
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