It Was On The Blue Sea

Audio file

Date recorded: August 24, 1964
Contributor(s): Performer: Unidentified women; Recordist: Rudyneva, Anna; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Subject(s):
Genre: wedding song
Culture: East Slavic, Slavic
Instruments: voice
Location: Russia
Physical form: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T1708
Track Number: 4
Archive ID: T1708R04
Note: This is a group of Russian women. This is a field recording from 1961 from the Perm region, Krasnokamsk district, village of Ust' Kachka. This song is performed before the marriage when the bride's girl friends sing a song to her and she weeps, parting with them.
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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