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Balkan brass
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Balkan brass · In 1831 Prince Miloš Obrenović founded the first military band of Serbia. In School of Rock of the nineteenth century Roma musicians in particular took up trumpets, tubas and horns and played the folk music of the Balkans, with Turkish influences, at weddings, christenings, harvest festivals and funerals. Since 1961 orchestras have competed every year at the Guča trumpet festival. Boban Marković from Serbia and the Romanian Fanfare Ciocărlia brought the sound to stages all over the world.
Listening
Listening tip. Fejat Sejdić was one of the great Roma trumpeters of Guča. Hear how the trumpet leads the melody and the tubas and horns beneath it play the rhythm and the chords.
Kondorov let · Fejat Sejdić, 1971
Mundo čoček · Boban Marković Orkestar, 2003
Iag Bari · Fanfare Ciocărlia, 2001
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