On The Sea A Birch Sank

Audio file

Date recorded: August 24, 1964
Contributor(s): Performer: Unidentified women; Recordist: Rudyneva, Anna; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Subject(s):
Genre: song of Spring
Culture: East Slavic, Slavic
Instruments: voice
Location: Russia
Physical form: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T1707
Track Number: 17
Archive ID: T1707R17
Note: This is a group of five women. This is a field recording from 1953 from the Bryansk region, Starodub district, village of Mishovka. "Sea" here probably means "river."
Transcript:
Belongs to: Russia 8/64
About the session: These are dubs made from magnetic tape and celluloid discs in the Chamber of Folk Music of the Moscow Conservatory. They were originally recorded by Anna Rudyneva. "The majority of songs listed here are not performed now as a part of everyday life, i.e. are not spontaneous." –S.A. Tokaryev.
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