Music of Vojvodina
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The music of Vojvodina
is played by such organizations as the Opera of the Serbian National Theatre, an orchestra, the Tamburitza
Orchestra of Radio Television of Vojvodina
, the National String Orchestra, Zlatna Tamburica, the Association of Serbian Singing Groups, Oj Dunave, Dunave Plavi, the Academy of the Arts in Novi Sad
and the Muzička Omladina youth organization.
tradition. Some of the best-known choruses include "Koča Kolarov" (from Zrenjanin
), and "Isidora Sekulić" (from Novi Sad
).
Vojvodina has produced a well-known composer in Josif Marinković
(1851 - 1931) from Vranjevo. He wrote Romantic
-influenced pieces for choruses with accompaniment by a piano
, as well as hymn
s and theatrical music. Marinković used some elements of Serbian folk music
in these compositions. Another composer from Vojvodina was Isidor Bajić
, who also studied the area's folk music and founded the Serbian Music Magazine.
Modern musicians from Vojvodina include Pera Petrović, a violin
ist and singer.
in the east, the folk music of Hungary
in the north, the folk music of Slavonia
(Croatia
) in the west, and the folk music of Central Serbia
in the south. There is also some difference between the traditional music in various parts of Vojvodina, as well as the difference between the music of various ethnic groups in the region.
Traditional music of Vojvodina is to a large extent associated with small tamburitza
(tamburica) and string
orchestras. The format of orchestra varies; in the most common form, it usually has one or two tamburitzas, a violin
, a guitar
and a contrabass
(colloquially referred to as "begeš"); sometimes it also includes an accordion
. Such orchestras are, somewhat archaically, called bandas (bande). There are also orchestras consisting only of tambourines; their repertoire is, however, somewhat limited to more gentle songs.
The most renown tamburitza orchestra was the one of late Janika Balázs
. Singer and composer Zvonko Bogdan
is the most popular performer throughout.
Modern violinist Félix Lajkó
based his jazz
-like opus on a broad spectrum of influences from the music of Pannonian plain, including Hungarian, Vojvodinian and Roma music.
and rock
in Vojvodina, as elsewhere in Serbia
were 1980s, when the New Wave
explosion launched several excellent bands. The most relevant bands from that period were short-living but influential punkers Pekinška patka
, pop experimentists Laboratorija zvuka
and arty La strada
led by Slobodan Tišma. In the 1990s, the most outstanding bands were Obojeni program
and Love Hunters
from Novi Sad. In the late 1990s and 2000s, a stream of pop bands also gained limited popularity (Oružjem protivu otmičara
, Zbogom Brus Li
, Instant karma
).
Singer-songwriter
Đorđe Balašević, however, remains the most outstanding figure of modern popular music in Vojvodina. His career has lasted since 1977 to present days.
), with the influences from the oriental music such as Turkish or Greek music. Popular folk music singers from Vojvodina include Dara Bubamara
, Miloš Bojanić
and Boža Nikolić.
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...
is played by such organizations as the Opera of the Serbian National Theatre, an orchestra, the Tamburitza
Tamburitza
Tamburica or Tamboura refers to any member of a family of long-necked lutes popular in Eastern and Southern Europe, particularly Croatia , Serbia and Hungary. It is also known in southern Slovenia and Burgenland...
Orchestra of Radio Television of Vojvodina
Radio Television of Vojvodina
Radio Television of Vojvodina is the public broadcaster in the Serbian province of Vojvodina...
, the National String Orchestra, Zlatna Tamburica, the Association of Serbian Singing Groups, Oj Dunave, Dunave Plavi, the Academy of the Arts in Novi Sad
Novi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....
and the Muzička Omladina youth organization.
Classical music
Since at least the 19th century, Vojvodina has had a vibrant choralChoir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
tradition. Some of the best-known choruses include "Koča Kolarov" (from Zrenjanin
Zrenjanin
Zrenjanin is a city and municipality located in the eastern part of Serbian province of Vojvodina. It is the administrative centre of the Central Banat District of Serbia...
), and "Isidora Sekulić" (from Novi Sad
Novi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....
).
Vojvodina has produced a well-known composer in Josif Marinković
Josif Marinkovic
Josif Marinkovic was one of the most important Serbian composers of the nineteenth century.-External links:* *...
(1851 - 1931) from Vranjevo. He wrote Romantic
Romantic music
Romantic music or music in the Romantic Period is a musicological and artistic term referring to a particular period, theory, compositional practice, and canon in Western music history, from 1810 to 1900....
-influenced pieces for choruses with accompaniment by a piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
, as well as hymn
Hymn
A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of praise, adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification...
s and theatrical music. Marinković used some elements of Serbian folk music
Music of Serbia
Serbs and Serbia has a variety of traditional music, which is part of the wider Balkan tradition, with its own distinctive sound and characteristics.-History:...
in these compositions. Another composer from Vojvodina was Isidor Bajić
Isidor Bajic
Isidor Bajic was a Serbian composer, pedagogue, and publisher.He was born in Kula...
, who also studied the area's folk music and founded the Serbian Music Magazine.
Modern musicians from Vojvodina include Pera Petrović, a violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
ist and singer.
Traditional music
The traditional music of Vojvodina forms a kind of continuum with the folk music of RomaniaRomania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
in the east, the folk music of Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
in the north, the folk music of Slavonia
Slavonia
Slavonia is a geographical and historical region in eastern Croatia...
(Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
) in the west, and the folk music of Central Serbia
Central Serbia
Central Serbia , also referred to as Serbia proper , was the region of Serbia from 1945 to 2009. It included central parts of Serbia outside of the autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina. The region of Central Serbia was not an administrative division of Serbia as such; it was under the...
in the south. There is also some difference between the traditional music in various parts of Vojvodina, as well as the difference between the music of various ethnic groups in the region.
Traditional music of Vojvodina is to a large extent associated with small tamburitza
Tamburitza
Tamburica or Tamboura refers to any member of a family of long-necked lutes popular in Eastern and Southern Europe, particularly Croatia , Serbia and Hungary. It is also known in southern Slovenia and Burgenland...
(tamburica) and string
String instrument
A string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones...
orchestras. The format of orchestra varies; in the most common form, it usually has one or two tamburitzas, a violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
, a guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
and a contrabass
Contrabass
Contrabass refers to a musical instrument of very low pitch; generally those pitched one octave below instruments of the bass register...
(colloquially referred to as "begeš"); sometimes it also includes an accordion
Accordion
The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
. Such orchestras are, somewhat archaically, called bandas (bande). There are also orchestras consisting only of tambourines; their repertoire is, however, somewhat limited to more gentle songs.
The most renown tamburitza orchestra was the one of late Janika Balázs
Janika Balázs
Janika Balázs was a famous tamburitza musician and band leader from Vojvodina, Serbia.-Life:...
. Singer and composer Zvonko Bogdan
Zvonko Bogdan
Zvonko Bogdan is an eminent performer of traditional folk songs of Serbia, Croatia, Hungary and Romania. Apart from being famous as a singer, he is also a composer, painter and harness racer...
is the most popular performer throughout.
Modern violinist Félix Lajkó
Félix Lajkó
Félix Lajkó is a Hungarian violinist, zither player and composer. He plays a variation of musical styles: traditional string music of the Pannonian plain, Romani music, folk music, classical music, rock, blues, jazz and improvised melodies...
based his jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
-like opus on a broad spectrum of influences from the music of Pannonian plain, including Hungarian, Vojvodinian and Roma music.
Pop and rock
The "golden era" of popPop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
and rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
in Vojvodina, as elsewhere in Serbia
Music of Serbia
Serbs and Serbia has a variety of traditional music, which is part of the wider Balkan tradition, with its own distinctive sound and characteristics.-History:...
were 1980s, when the New Wave
New Wave music
New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...
explosion launched several excellent bands. The most relevant bands from that period were short-living but influential punkers Pekinška patka
Pekinška Patka
Pekinška Patka is an eminent Serbian and former Yugoslav punk rock band from Novi Sad. Their debut album, Plitka poezija, released in 1980, is considered the first punk rock album by a band coming from Serbia...
, pop experimentists Laboratorija zvuka
Laboratorija Zvuka
Laboratorija Zvuka , sometimes credited as Laboratorija only, was a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band...
and arty La strada
La Strada (band)
La Strada was a Serbian and former Yugoslav New Wave/alternative rock band from Novi Sad.- New Wave era :The band was formed by Slobodan Tišma also known as "Deda" , a rock veteran and poet, and called it La Strada by the Federico Fellini movie La strada...
led by Slobodan Tišma. In the 1990s, the most outstanding bands were Obojeni program
Obojeni Program
Obojeni Program is a Serbian alternative rock band from Novi Sad. The band are pioneers of the Serbian alternative rock scene. The band is also famous for giving strange names to their albums, which is explained by the fact that the first letters of all the studio albums form an acronym of their...
and Love Hunters
Love Hunters
-1987—2004:The band was formed in 1987 by Milan Mumin and Aleksandar Medan . The first lineup of the band also featured Lazar Malešević and Siniša Lučić . In the beginning, the band had several lineup changes, before the first consistent lineup was formed...
from Novi Sad. In the late 1990s and 2000s, a stream of pop bands also gained limited popularity (Oružjem protivu otmičara
Oružjem Protivu Otmičara
Oružjem Protivu Otmičara is a Serbian pop punk/power pop band from Zrenjanin.- 1990s :...
, Zbogom Brus Li
Zbogom Brus Li
Zbogom Brus Li is a Serbian punk rock band from Novi Sad. Influenced by Misfits, Ramones, Toy Dolls, Cock Sparrer, Dickies, T.Rex, Hard-Ons and other acts, the band combines punk rock and folk music of Vojvodina into a style the band describes as "tamburaški punk" .-1992 – 2000:The band was...
, Instant karma
Instant Karma
Instant Karma may refer to:* "Instant Karma!", a song by John Lennon* Instant Karma , an Indian dance music group* Instant Karma * Instant Karma , an independent record label...
).
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
Đorđe Balašević, however, remains the most outstanding figure of modern popular music in Vojvodina. His career has lasted since 1977 to present days.
Folk music
During the 1990s the popular music in Serbia and Vojvodina became the so-called "new-composed folk music" (turbo-folkTurbo-folk
Turbo-folk is a popular musical sub-genre that originated in Serbia, the Balkans. Having mainstream popularity in Serbia, although closely associated with Serbian performers, its sound is as popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Montenegro...
), with the influences from the oriental music such as Turkish or Greek music. Popular folk music singers from Vojvodina include Dara Bubamara
Dara Bubamara
Dara Bubamara is the stage name of a popular Serbian pop-folk singer. Born as Radojka "Rada" Adžić, she grew up in Satelit, a neighborhood of Novi Sad, Serbia. Her parents moved to Novi Sad from Derventa, Bosnia and Herzegovina before Rada was born...
, Miloš Bojanić
Miloš Bojanic
Miloš Bojanić is a Bosnian Serb pop-folk singer. Milos was born in Bijeljina, He lived in Ruhotina, near Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then a part of Yugoslavia. His sons, Bane and Mikica, are singers as well, Bane lives in Chicago...
and Boža Nikolić.