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  • Category: Music
  • Date Created: 2010-11-07
  • Date Updated: 2024-07-10
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Keywords: DOINA Old Romanian Mystic Traditional Nostalgic Melancholic Mysterious Love and Longing Songs


DOINA is a mystical ,nostalgic ,mournful song-form , performed with varying degrees of embellishment and melisma. DOINA originates in the Carpathian-Danubian area of ancient Dacia. DOINA is the tune of the lonely shepherd,the lament of the grieving mother,the howl of the wounded soldier,the remorse of the outlaw,the relief of the aging man,the confort of the orphan,the regret of the departed son,the sigh of the longing lover,the song of the sensitive heart,the prayer of a devotional soul. DOINA is a sad lyrical chant in the form of a free rhythm and spontaneous improvisation. DOINA is a folk elegy that often makes references to nature in order to symbolicaly mirror the life in general or in particular. DOINA is poetic and often melancholic. DOINA is mostly about the feeling of "Dor,'' expressing intense longing. DOINA becomes a PRICEASNA when it praises and worships The Maker of Heaven and earth. DOINA can be considered the sister of the Ballad and the cousin of Romantza, another nostalgic song . DOINA is a long, slow-paced, polyphonic arrangement which can be done with voice modulation or with musical instrumenation. DOINA belongs to the treasury of world art creations being protected by UNESCO as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. DOINA is an archaic,expressive folk song- form of the earliest Wallachians but is still an inseparable part of the present day music of Romania and may be considered a futuristic musical style to accompany a Star Trek journey. DOINA is yet eternal because it is a song of the undying soul. DOINA's melodic frequencies, its magic sounds, are considered to be beneficial for the biochemistry and the affective states of the human mind and therefore is successfuly used in music therapy. DOINA , this extremely sensitive and wonderful song-form, combines the human cry with the howl of the lonely wolf. DOINA's sound arrangments may increase the susceptibility of hypnotic mental states up to 20-30%. DOINA is also a Romanian girl's name meaning Sweet Folk Song. DOINA is just another way of saying Romania. Dimitrie Cantemir mentions "Doina" in his "Descriptio Moldaviae" among a series of old pre-Christian (Dacian) deities, persistent in popular oral tradition, noticing that "Doina, Doina" is a starting phrase incantation in many folk songs. Some examples of Doina based on location,subject or instrumentation: Doina Romaneasca Doina Ciobaneasca Doina Pastoreasca Doina Haiduceasca Doina Oltului Do