 | Today | 8 |
 | Yesterday | 19 |
 | This week | 150 |
 | Last week | 215 |
 | This month | 820 |
 | Last month | 1064 |
 | All days | 7577 |
Your IP: 38.107.179.231
,
Today: Jan 28, 2012
Welcome to Mihalache.dk
Musicians as the Mihalaches are known as lautari in Romania.
Gypsy LautariThe Romanian word lăutar denotes a class of traditional musicians.
Most often, and by tradition, lăutari are members of a professional clan of Romani musicians also called tigani lăutari.
The term is derived from lăută the name of a string instrument.
Lăutari usually perform in bands, called
A lautar is a professional musician, who lives by playing at weddings and other festive occassions, therefore the repertoire is lively and intense.
From fast dancing tunes, such as "sarbas" and "horas", to sentimental love songs.
Since this is folk music, it is not learned from a score, but "by ear" from one musician to another.
Traditionally, every time a lautar plays a melodi he re-interprets it.
That means that it sounds slighly different each time
George and Meltiade have learned the tunes by playing with their father, who learned them from his father, Iancu Ciupitu, and so forth.
Taraf of Ochi-Albi, 1860, Bucharest
