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Croatia: Fertile valley and plains, some mountains, some coastline
Serbia: Some fertile valley, some mountains |
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Croatia: Croatian dialect of serbo-croatian. they use the Roman alphabet
Use of diacritics over Roman letters
Serbia: Serbian dialect of Serbo-croatian. Cyrillic alphabet |
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Serbs were subjects of Ottomon/turkish empire
Croatians were subjects of the Austro-hungarian empire |
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NR: Croatia: Sava river plain very fertile
Serbia: Danube River (dunaj) |
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Croatia: dances in circle-more democratic
Serbia: "led" by one individual-more hierarchical
Kolovodja-kolo leader
Kec-End man |
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Croats: roman catholic
Serbs: eastern Orthodox |
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varied by region
many garments are lavishly embroidered
footwear: Opanke/Opanci |
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Shroveride
easter
st johns day (mid summer)
xmas |
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Croatia: Hungary (north) Serbia (east) Bosnia (south) adriatic sea (west)
Serbia: Hungary (north); romania (north-east); Bulgaria (east); Macedonia (south); Albania (south-west); Montenegro (west) Bosnia (west) and croatia (west) |
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String bands predominate esp in croatia (prim, brac, bugaria, bass)
-frula and accordion in serbia
-bagpipes (goat skin) used in some villages
-vocal chanting, and percussive sounds of dancers feet |
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dance phrase and musical phrase often do not match
music is often in 4 meas. but may be in 5 meas. |
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regular rhythms of 2/4 and 4/4
irregular rhytms are found in easter serbia and in south serbia |
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At festival and other celebration such as weddings
-dancers always gathered around the musician
-men frequently get first choice of the preferred instruments |
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Outdoors: grass; Cobblestones
-near dwelling; Courtyard; porch
-indoors: Kitchen or large room |
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Line (non-partner)
-Kolo-broken circle
-drmes-closed circle and couple (croatia)
Couple Dances:
-some couple dances in Croatia with partner contact
-few couple dances in serbia; little partner contact
-trio dances found in croatia near Hungarian border |
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Kolo (broken circle) predominates
Line (short) in some localities
hand holds (V & W) predominate; same back and front baskets on Croatia; some belt holds in eastern Serbia. |
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figures: not very comples
arms: usually static positions esp of hands; occasional movements of arms.
Legs: mostly movement from knee down; little lifting of leg
Footwork: moderately to very complex |
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many slow dances
some fast, vigorous dances |
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Croat: More flat footed-less than 30% of time on balls of feet
Serb: more on balls of feet-over 50% on balls of their feet not putting heels down on the floor |
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Serb
song "a grapevine interwined upon itself" |
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from village of uzice |
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dance of slavonija
croatia |
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Dance of Vrlika or Lika
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Posavina shaking dance
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Shaking dance turopolje
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| shaking dance of Zdencina |
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