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Gusle, the Glossary

The gusle (гусле) or lahuta (lahutë) is a bowed single-stringed musical instrument (and musical style) traditionally used in the Dinarides region of Southeastern Europe (in the Balkans).^[1]

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Albanian musical instruments
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Albania

Albania (Shqipëri or Shqipëria), officially the Republic of Albania (Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Albert Bates Lord (15 September 1912 – 29 July 1991) was a professor of Slavic and comparative literature at Harvard University who carried on Milman Parry's research on epic poetry after Parry's death.

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Alberto Fortis

Alberto Fortis (1741–1803) was an Italian writer, naturalist and cartographer, citizen of Republic of Venice.

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Andrija Kačić Miošić

Andrija Kačić Miošić (17 April 1704 – 14 December 1760) was a Croatian poet and Franciscan friar, as well as a descendant of the Kačić noble family, one of the oldest and most influential Croatian noble families.

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Avdo Međedović

Avdo Međedović (– 1955) was a guslar (gusle player and oral poet) from Montenegro.

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Đerzelez Alija

Đerzelez Alija or Gjergj Elez Alia is a legendary character found in the epic poetry and literature of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Gora, Kosovo and northern Albania.

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Bagpipes

Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag.

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Balkans

The Balkans, corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions.

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Battle of Banja Luka

The Battle of Banja Luka (Banaluka Muharebesi, Banjolučki boj) took place in Banja Luka, Ottoman Bosnia, on 4 August 1737, during the Austro-Russian-Turkish War.

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Berimbau

The berimbau (borrowed from Kimbundu mbirimbau) is a traditional Angolan musical bow that is commonly used in Brazil.

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Bey

Bey, also spelled as Baig, Bayg, Beigh, Beig, Bek, Baeg or Beg, is a Turkic title for a chieftain, and an honorific title traditionally applied to people with special lineages to the leaders or rulers of variously sized areas in the numerous Turkic kingdoms, emirates, sultanates and empires in Central Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East, such as the Ottomans, Timurids or the various khanates and emirates in Central Asia and the Eurasian Steppe.

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Bosanska Krajina

Bosanska Krajina (Босанска Крајина) is a geographical region, a subregion of Bosnia, in western Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Bosnia (region)

Bosnia (Босна) is the northern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, encompassing roughly 81% of the country; the other region, the southern part, is Herzegovina.

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Bow (music)

In music, a bow is a tensioned stick which has hair (usually horse-tail hair) coated in rosin (to facilitate friction) affixed to it.

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Bowed string instrument

Bowed string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by a bow rubbing the strings.

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Byzantine lyra

The Byzantine lyra or lira (λύρα) was a medieval bowed string musical instrument in the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire.

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Cetinje

Cetinje is a town in Montenegro.

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Cockchafer

The common cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha), also colloquially known as the Maybug, Maybeetle, or doodlebug, is a species of scarab beetle belonging to the genus Melolontha. It is native to Europe, and it is one of several closely-related and morphologically similar species of Melolontha called cockchafers, alongside Melolontha hippocastani (the forest cockchafer).

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Croats

The Croats (Hrvati) or Horvati (in a more archaic version) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and other neighboring countries in Central and Southeastern Europe who share a common Croatian ancestry, culture, history and language.

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Dalmatia

Dalmatia (Dalmacija; Dalmazia; see names in other languages) is one of the four historical regions of Croatia, alongside Central Croatia, Slavonia, and Istria, located on the east shore of the Adriatic Sea in Croatia.

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Decasyllable

Decasyllable (Italian: decasillabo, French: décasyllabe, Serbian: десетерац, deseterac) is a poetic meter of ten syllables used in poetic traditions of syllabic verse.

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Dinaric Alps

The Dinaric Alps, also Dinarides, are a mountain range in Southern and Southcentral Europe, separating the continental Balkan Peninsula from the Adriatic Sea.

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Epic poetry

An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.

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Filip Višnjić

Filip Višnjić (Филип Вишњић,; 1767–1834) was a Serbian epic poet and guslar.

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Gheg Albanian

Gheg or Geg (Gheg Albanian: gegnisht, Standard gegërisht) is one of the two major varieties of Albanian, the other being Tosk.

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Gjergj Fishta

Gjergj Fishta (23 October 187130 December 1940) was an Albanian Franciscan friar, poet, educator, rilindas, politician, translator and writer.

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Hajduk

A hajduk (hajdúk, plural of foot-soldier) is a type of irregular infantry found in Central, Eastern, and parts of Southeast Europe from the late 16th to mid 19th centuries.

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Herzegovina

Herzegovina (or; Херцеговина) is the southern and smaller of two main geographical regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being Bosnia.

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Hrnjica Brothers

Hrnjica brothers are heroes of epic poetry in Bosnia.

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Idyll

An idyll (occasionally spelled idyl in American English) is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls (Εἰδύλλια).

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Igil

The igil (Tuvan: игил) is a two-stringed Tuvan musical instrument, played by bowing the strings. Gusle and igil are Drumhead lutes and Necked bowl lutes.

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Intangible cultural heritage

An intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is a practice, representation, expression, knowledge, or skill considered by UNESCO to be part of a place's cultural heritage.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Ivanjica

Ivanjica (Ивањица) is a town and municipality located in the Moravica District of southwestern Serbia.

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Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic

Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic (August 20, 1597 – October 14, 1677) was a Polish poet and historian of the Baroque era, most famous for his pastoral poems Sielanki nowe ruskie (New Ruthenian Pastorals), first published in Kraków in 1663.

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Jernej Kopitar

Jernej Kopitar, also known as Bartholomeus Kopitar (21 August 1780 – 11 August 1844), was a Slovene linguist and philologist working in Vienna.

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Kângë Kreshnikësh

The Kângë Kreshnikësh ("Songs of Heroes") are the traditional songs of the heroic legendary cycle of Albanian epic poetry (Albanian: Cikli i Kreshnikëve or Eposi i Kreshnikëve).

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Korčula

Korčula (Curzola) is a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea.

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Lika

Lika is a traditional region of Croatia proper, roughly bound by the Velebit mountain from the southwest and the Plješevica mountain from the northeast.

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Lovćen

Lovćen (Ловћен.) is a mountain and national park in southwestern Montenegro.

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Malësi e Madhe District

Malësi e Madhe District, commonly known as Malësia, was one of the 36 districts of Albania, which were dissolved in July 2000 and replaced by 12 newly created counties.

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Malësia

Malësia e Madhe ("Great Highlands"), known simply as Malësia (Malësia, Malesija / Малесија), is a historical and ethnographic region in northern Albania and eastern central Montenegro corresponding to the highlands of the geographical subdivision of the Malësi e Madhe District in Albania and Tuzi Municipality in Montenegro.

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Maple

Acer is a genus of trees and shrubs commonly known as maples.

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Marko Perković

Marko Perković (born 27 October 1966) is a Croatian musician who has been the lead singer of the band Thompson since 1991.

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Masenqo

The masenqo (ማሲንቆ; Tigrinya: ጭራ-ዋጣ (ዋጣ), also known as masinko, is a single-stringed bowed lute commonly found in the musical traditions of Eritrea and Ethiopia. As with the krar, this instrument is used by Ethiopian minstrels called azmaris ("singer" in Amharic). Although it functions in a purely accompaniment capacity in songs, the masenqo requires considerable virtuosity, as azmaris accompany themselves while singing. Gusle and masenqo are Drumhead lutes and one-string fiddles.

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Mate Bulić

Mate Bulić (born 18 February 1957) is a Herzegovinian pop and folk singer, whose songs are influenced by his native Herzegovina region of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Medieval Serbian nobility

In the medieval Serbian states, the privileged class consisted of nobility and clergy, distinguished from commoners, part of the feudal society.

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Metre (poetry)

In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.

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Mile Krajina

Mile Krajina (c. 1923 – 15 October 2014) was a noted gusle player from Croatia, who sang traditional folk songs.

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Milman Parry

Milman Parry (June 23, 1902 – December 3, 1935) was an American Classicist whose theories on the origin of Homer's works have revolutionized Homeric studies to such a fundamental degree that he has been described as the "Darwin of Homeric studies".

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Montenegro

Montenegro is a country in Southeastern Europe, situated on the Balkan Peninsula.

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Mustay-Bey of Lika

Mustay-Bey of Lika (Mustaj-beg Lički) is a figure in the epic poetry of the Bosniaks, even though stories about him can be found among Bosniaks in all regions he is predominantly a character that is found in the epic poetry of Bosniaks living in the Bosnian Krajina (Frontier) region.

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Niš

Niš (Ниш,; names in other languages), less often spelled in English as Nish, is the third largest city in Serbia and the administrative center of the Nišava District.

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Octosyllable

The octosyllable or octosyllabic verse is a line of verse with eight syllables.

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Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia (or rarely echoism) is a type of word, or the process of creating a word, that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Petar II Petrović-Njegoš

Petar II Petrović-Njegoš (Петар II Петровић-Његош,; –), commonly referred to simply as Njegoš (Његош), was a Prince-Bishop (vladika) of Montenegro, poet and philosopher whose works are widely considered some of the most important in Montenegrin and Serbian literature.

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Plurale tantum

A paren) is a noun that appears only in the plural form and does not have a singular variant for referring to a single object. In a less strict usage of the term, it can also refer to nouns whose singular form is rarely used. In English, pluralia tantum are often words that denote objects that occur or function as pairs or sets, such as spectacles, trousers, pants, scissors, clothes, or genitals.

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Project Rastko

Project Rastko — Internet Library of Serb Culture (Пројекат Растко — Електронска библиотека српске културе, Projekat Rastko — Elektronska biblioteka srpske kulture) is a non-profit and non-governmental publishing, cultural and educational project dedicated to Serb and Serb-related arts and humanities.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

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Russo-Turkish War (1735–1739)

The Russo-Turkish War of 1735–1739 between Russia and the Ottoman Empire was caused by the Ottoman Empire's war with Persia and the continuing raids by the Crimean Tatars.

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Serbia

Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Southeast and Central Europe, located in the Balkans and the Pannonian Plain.

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Serbian epic poetry

Serbian epic poetry (Srpske epske narodne pesme) is a form of epic poetry created by Serbs originating in today's Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and North Macedonia.

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Shrove Tuesday

Shrove Tuesday (also known as Pancake Tuesday or Pancake Day) is the final day of Shrovetide, marking the end of pre-Lent.

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Sound box

A sound box or sounding box (sometimes written soundbox) is an open chamber in the body of a musical instrument which modifies the sound of the instrument, and helps transfer that sound to the surrounding air.

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South Slavs

South Slavs are Slavic people who speak South Slavic languages and inhabit a contiguous region of Southeast Europe comprising the eastern Alps and the Balkan Peninsula.

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Southeast Europe

Southeast Europe or Southeastern Europe (SEE) is a geographical sub-region of Europe, consisting primarily of the region of the Balkans, as well as adjacent regions and archipelagos.

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Stefan the First-Crowned

Stefan Nemanjić (Стефан Немањић), known as Stefan the First-Crowned (Stefan Prvovenčani,; – 24 September 1228), was the Grand Prince of Serbia from 1196 and the King of Serbia from 1217 until his death in 1228.

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String instrument

In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.

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Teodosije the Hilandarian

Teodosije the Hilandarian or Theodosije of Hilandar (Теодосије Хиландарац/Teodosije Hilandarac; 1246–1328) was a Serbian Orthodox clergyman and one of the most important Serbian writers in the Middle Ages; the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts named him one of the 100 most prominent Serbs.

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The Highland Lute

The Highland Lute (Lahuta e Malcís, original and standard language of the time based on Gheg Albanian) is the Albanian national epic poem, completed and published by the Albanian friar and poet Gjergj Fishta in 1937.

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Theophylact Simocatta

Theophylact Simocatta (Byzantine Greek: Θεοφύλακτος Σιμοκάτ(τ)ης Theophýlaktos Simokát(t)ēs; Theophylactus Simocatta) was an early seventh-century Byzantine historiographer, arguably ranking as the last historian of Late Antiquity, writing in the time of Heraclius (c.

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Timok

The Timok (Serbian and Bulgarian: Тимок; Timoc), sometimes also known as Great Timok (Veliki Timok; Timocul Mare), is a river in eastern Serbia, a right tributary of the Danube.

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Turkish Croatia

Turkish Croatia (Türkisch Croatien/Kroatien, Turska Hrvatska) was a geopolitical term which appeared periodically during the Ottoman–Habsburg wars between the late 16th to late 18th century.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gusle

Also known as Gusla, Guslar, Guzla, Lahuta/Gusle, Lahutë.

, Metre (poetry), Mile Krajina, Milman Parry, Montenegro, Mustay-Bey of Lika, Niš, Octosyllable, Onomatopoeia, Ottoman Empire, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Plurale tantum, Project Rastko, Romanticism, Russo-Turkish War (1735–1739), Serbia, Serbian epic poetry, Shrove Tuesday, Sound box, South Slavs, Southeast Europe, Stefan the First-Crowned, String instrument, Teodosije the Hilandarian, The Highland Lute, Theophylact Simocatta, Timok, Turkish Croatia, UNESCO, UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists, Vocality, Vorbis, Vuk Karadžić, Władysław II Jagiełło.

Gusle, the Glossary

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See also

Albanian musical instruments

Bosnian musical instruments

Bowed monochords

Croatian musical instruments

Montenegrin musical instruments

One-string fiddles

Serbian musical instruments

References