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Klapa
Klapa music is a form of traditional a cappella singing with origins in Dalmatia, Croatia. The word ''klapa'' translates as "a group of friends" and traces its roots to littoral church singing. The motifs in general celebrate love, wine (grapes), country (homeland) and sea. Main elements of the music are harmony and melody, with rhythm very rarely being very important. In 2012 klapa was inscribed in UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Description A klapa group consists of a first tenor, a second tenor, a baritone, and a bass. It is possible to double all the voices apart from the first tenor. It is usually composed of up to a dozen male singers. In recent times, female vocal groups have been quite popular, but in general male and female groups do not mix. Although klapa is a cappella music, on occasion it is possible to add a gentle guitar and a mandolin (instrument similar in appearance and sound to tamburitzas). Klapa can also be accompanied with synthesizer keybo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klapa Šufit
Klapa Šufit is a musical group from Split, Croatia. Klapa Šufit is a group of male singers who perform klapa music, a cappella multi-part singing, in a traditional way typical of Dalmatia, Croatia. They also perform modern klapa music featuring full instrumentation. Their most popular song is "Ne Diraj Moju Ljubav," which is also the title track of their third album. About Klapa Šufit In the autumn of 1992, in the attic of Split’s 4th Gymnasium "Marko Marulić", the young and talented music professor Mr. Tomislav Versic gathered a group of students into a small vocal group, in Croatia known as “klapa”. (“Klapa” is a group of male or female singers who perform a cappella multi-part singing, typical for Dalmatia.) They named themselves Klapa Šufit as they were practicing in the school attic (''Šufit'' is Croatian dialect for attic). A year and a half later, the students had their first successful appearance at the Festival of Dalmatian vocal groups in O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mižerja
Croatia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 with the song "Mižerja" written by Goran Topolovac. The song was performed by the group Klapa s Mora, which was selected internally by the Croatian broadcaster Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT) on 11 February 2013 to represent Croatia at the 2013 contest in Malmö, Sweden. Their song "Mižerja" was presented to the public on 27 February 2013 during a live streamed press conference. Croatia was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 14 May 2013. Performing during the show in position 4, "Mižerja" was not announced among the top 10 entries of the first semi-final and therefore did not qualify to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Croatia placed thirteenth out of the 16 participating countries in the semi-final with 38 points. Background Prior to the 2013 contest, Croatia had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest twenty times since its first entry in . T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatia In The Eurovision Song Contest 2013
Croatia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 with the song "Mižerja" written by Goran Topolovac. The song was performed by the group Klapa s Mora, which was selected internally by the Croatian broadcaster Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT) on 11 February 2013 to represent Croatia at the 2013 contest in Malmö, Sweden. Their song "Mižerja" was presented to the public on 27 February 2013 during a live streamed press conference. Croatia was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 14 May 2013. Performing during the show in position 4, "Mižerja" was not announced among the top 10 entries of the first semi-final and therefore did not qualify to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Croatia placed thirteenth out of the 16 participating countries in the semi-final with 38 points. Background Prior to the 2013 contest, Croatia had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest twenty times since its first entry in . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klapa S Mora
Klapa s Mora was a music ensemble that represented Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö with the song " Mižerja". It is a " super ''klapa''" ensemble that includes six male ''klapa'' singers from five existing ''klapa'' groups in Croatia. Members *Marko Škugor - First tenor (from klapa Kampanel) *Ante Galić - Second tenor (from klapa Sinj) *Nikša Antica - First baritone (from klapa Kampanel) *Leon Bataljaku - Second baritone (from klapa Crikvenica) *Ivica Vlaić - Bass (from klapa Sebenico) *Bojan Kavedžija - Bass (from klapa Grdelin) Eurovision 2013 During their performance in the first semi-final night of the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 the members of the Klapa s mora presented themselves in traditional outfits worn by the Sinjska alka competitors. Sinjska alka, as well as the klapa style of singing is included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists UNESCO established its Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage with the aim of ensuring better p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatian Folk Music
The music of Croatia, like the divisions of the country itself, has two major influences: Central European, present in central and northern parts of the country including Slavonia, and Mediterranean, present in coastal regions of Dalmatia and Istria. In Croatia both pop and rock are popular, as well as pop music influenced by Dalmatian or Slavonian folk elements. Since the mid-20th century, schlager and chanson-inspired music have formed the backbone of the Croatian popular music. History of music in Croatia Medieval The oldest preserved relics of musical culture in Croatia are sacral in nature and represented by ''Latin medieval liturgical chant manuscripts'' (approximately one hundred musical codices and fragments dating from the 11th to the 15th centuries have been preserved to date). They reveal a wealth of various influences and liturgical traditions that converged in this region ( Dalmatian liturgy in ''Benevento script'', Northern Gregorian chant, and original ''Glag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
