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JVC Europe Music and Dance Regional Set -- 3 DVDs and 1 CD-ROM with 9 printable, searchable and copy-permission books



Including sixty-six (66) performances from 15 (fifteen) countries, the 3 DVDs are accompanied by 1 CD-ROM with 9 printable, searchable and copy-permission books with extensive notes on the performances written by the field recordists and the Introduction book to the entire 30-volume collection. Countries included are Ireland, England, France, Switzerland, West Germany (before the re-unification), Spain, Italy, Greece, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Albania.

EUROPE I - VOL 20

Ireland
20-1 Uilleann pipe - Irish bagpipe performance - 2:09
20-2 Folk dance with concertina accompaniment - 1:40

England
20-3 Parade of the Military Band of Buckingham Palace - 0:39
20-4 Bagpipe performance - 1:02
20-5 Sword dance of Scottish soldiers - 0:27

France
20-6 Chanson - urban song: "Les feuilles mortes" ("Dead leaves") - 1:07
20-7 Harlequin's dance - 1:49
20-8 Farandole - folk dance - 2:52

Switzerland
20-9 Alphorn quartet - 0:32
20-10 Naturjodel ensemble - 1:15

West Germany
20-11 The bear spirit at the carnival of Wilflingen - 3:03
20-12 The Uberlingen sword dance - 3:26

Spain
20-13 Sevilanas and rumba flamenca - folk dances - 3:10
20-14 Cossiers - folk dance of Mallorca - 1:42
20-15 Folk dance: "Bolero de Belmar" - 1:24
20-16 Folk dance: "Copeo de Montaña" - 1:24
20-17 Sardana - folk dance - 3:03

Italy
20-18 Neapolitan folk song: "Santa Lucia" - 2:17
20-19 Lament< - 3:29
20-20 Sardinian folk song: "Love and error" - 2:34
20-21 Joyous dance - 2:37
20-22 Sardinian dance song: "Ballo" - 1:51

Greece
20-23 Pentozali - folk dance from the village of Axos, Crete - 4:37
20-24 Wedding ceremony from the village of Anoyia, Crete - 4:35

EUROPE II - VOL 21

Poland
21-1 Folk dance medley from Krosno, Rzeszów area of Eastern Poland - 9:47
21-2 Zbójnicki - hatchet dance, southeastern Poland, Tatra Mountain area - 1:43

Czechoslovakia
21-3 Cófavá - dance from Haná, central Moravia: ("Hemp is growing") - 2:34
21-4 Folk song from the Haná area of Moravia: "The lark in the sky" - 2:36
21-5 Dance music with early instruments: "Aria Hannaco" - 3:20
21-6 Hatschó - peasant wedding dance of Moravia - 2:37
21-7 Tuseblied and Radl - festival song and round dance - 1:37
21-8 Bohemian sword dance - 2:24
21-9 Karicka and cardás - dances of eastern Slovakia - 4:19
21-10 Gypsy songs and dances from Slovakia - 9:25

Hungary
21-11 Country dance procession from Dunamenti Festival - 3:48
21-12 Citera - zither ensemhle: "Zavaros a Tiska" ("Muddy is the Tisza's water") - 0:56
21-13 Tekero - hurdy-gurdy - 0:42
21-14 Legényes - men's dance - 2:03
21-15 Legényes with kelimaski gilji - Gypsy dance song - 1:43
21-16 Hungarian wedding ceremony of Transylvania in Romania - 7:43

EUROPE III - VOL 22

Romania
22-1 Ensemble from Muntenia - 2:13
22-2 Kaval - flute performance - 2:12
22-3 Whistling: "Ciocirlia" ("Skylark") - 1:26
22-4 Romanian folk song: "Hometown" - 2:17
22-5 Hora and sirba - round dance and line dance of Muntenia - 2:35
22-6 Music of the autumn harvest festival in Moldavia - 1:15
22-7 Dance from Botosani in northern Moldavia - 2:57
22-8 Capra - Christmas "dance of the billy goat" - 0:54
22-9 Song and dance of the mountain people from Mures in Transylvania - 3:07
22-10 Sirba - dance from Oltenia in southern Romania - 1:55

Yugoslavia
22-11 Potkorak - dance from Dalmatia - 1:34
22-12 Dalmation folk song: "I am a girl of the harbor" - 1:53
22-13 Serbian folk song: "Beautiful Emina" - 3:11
22-14 Guslar - epic singer with gusle [bowed lute] - 1:50
22-15 Narrative poetry from Montenegro, accompanied on the gusle [bowed lute]: "Death of Smrt Smail-Aga Cengica" - 2:25

Bulgaria
22-16 Wedding songs and dances - 1:52
22-17 Gadulka - bowed string instrument performance and song - 1:30
22-18 Farm workers' songs - 6:23

Albania
22-19 Tepsije - tray-spinning song of Kosovo - 2:05
22-20 Women's chorus from the village of Zur: "T'kom thon 'dada mos shko me fitve" ("My lover, don't go to a different town") - 1:24
22-21 Dance from the village of Zur: "Dy mollat e kuge" ("Two red apples") - 1:43
22-22 Trio of ethnic instruments from the village of Zur: "Canakala mrena" ("The fortress of Canakala") - 1:59
22-23 Men's folk song: "Kanga e B]ram Currit" ("Song of brave Bjram Currit") - 2:54
22-24 Wedding song with dance from Metohija: "Moj batixhe shamikuge" ("Oh, Hatixha has put on a red shawl") - 1:39
22-25 Kallcoja - war dance/sword dance - 1:51
22-26 Narrative song with lahuta [bowed lute]: "Djegja e Rugoves" ("The burned-down town of Rugoves") - 3:40


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