The Adventures of Marko Kraljević - Epic Slavic Music of the Balkans
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ม.ค. 2022
- Arrangement by Farya Faraji. This isn't an original composition but rather a collage and piecing together of different South Slavic melodic motifs I researched and recorded. Marko Mrnjavčević is a 14th century historical figure and king of the Serbs, and a national hero of Serbs, Bulgarians and North Macedonians. This piece however, is about the folkloric version of the character, called Kraljević Marko. Mythologised in South Slavic epic poetry cycles, Marko is a heroic figure who fights injustice, protects the weak, and embarks on great adventures. A lover of brawls and drinking, he is also a comical figure, both in his jests against his ennemies and his appearance: "Marko grew up into a large, strong man, with a terrifying appearance, which was also somewhat comical. He wore a wolf-skin cap pulled low over his dark eyes, his black moustache was the size of a six-month-old lamb and his cloak was a shaggy wolf-pelt." His inseparable companion is Šarac, his horse with whom he always shared an equal amount of wine. In the epic cycle, Marko lives for 300 years, encountering numerous real life historical figures as allies, such as John Hunyadi, the Hungarian voivode of Transylvania, or Hrelja, a Slavic feudal lord. In many of the versions, his blood sister is the vila (a sort of fairy) Ravijojla who often comes to his aid.
With all this, I was inspired to come up with a theme for this character, something that could express his lively adventures and companions, like a South Slavic equivalent of a Pirates of the Carribbean theme. I found the answer in the traditional dances of South Slavs, specifically that of the Serbs, Bulgarians and Slavic Macedonians. This song mixes two styles of dance music called Opas and Trite Pati in Bulgarian. Their music revolves around the gaida bagpipe providing the melody, and the davul drums providing the percussions. I found the lively and dancey tone fitting for the adventures of Marko.
The instrument heard in the beginning is the gusle, a one string fiddle used in the Balkans and most associated with epic poetry-in Serbia, for examples, the guslars recite the poems of Marko's epic cycle using the gusla and singing in a freeform, vibrato-based style unbound by rhythm and metre. Here is an example: • Marko Kraljević i Musa... - เพลง
Arrangement by Farya Faraji. This isn't an original composition but rather a collage and piecing together of different South Slavic melodic motifs I researched and recorded-I'm not yet entirely fluent in the musical language of South Slavs so I didn't want to write the melody myself yet; I haven't completely figured out the logic of melodic motifs in the area. Marko Mrnjavčević is a 14th century historical figure and king of the Serbs, and a national hero of Serbs, Bulgarians and North Macedonians. This piece however, is about the folkloric version of the character, called Kraljević Marko. Mythologised in South Slavic epic poetry cycles, Marko is a heroic figure who fights injustice, protects the weak, and embarks on great adventures. A lover of brawls and drinking, he is also a comical figure, both in his jests against his ennemies and his appearance: "Marko grew up into a large, strong man, with a terrifying appearance, which was also somewhat comical. He wore a wolf-skin cap pulled low over his dark eyes, his black moustache was the size of a six-month-old lamb and his cloak was a shaggy wolf-pelt." His inseparable companion is Šarac, his horse with whom he always shared an equal amount of wine. In the epic cycle, Marko lives for 300 years, encountering numerous real life historical figures as allies, such as John Hunyadi, the Hungarian voivode of Transylvania, or Hrelja, a Slavic feudal lord. In many of the versions, his blood sister is the vila (a sort of fairy) Ravijojla who often comes to his aid.
With all this, I was inspired to come up with a theme for this character, something that could express his lively adventures and companions, like a South Slavic equivalent of a Pirates of the Carribbean theme. I found the answer in the traditional dances of South Slavs, specifically that of the Serbs, Bulgarians and Slavic Macedonians. This song mixes two styles of dance music called Opas and Trite Pati in Bulgarian. Their music revolves around the gaida bagpipe providing the melody, and the davul drums providing the percussions. I found the lively and dancey tone fitting for the adventures of Marko.
The instrument heard in the beginning is the gusle, a one string fiddle used in the Balkans and most associated with epic poetry-in Serbia, for examples, the guslars recite the poems of Marko's epic cycle using the gusla and singing in a freeform, vibrato-based style. Here is an example: th-cam.com/video/YWGJnbig70s/w-d-xo.html
Just for addition, the most usual verse in Serbian epic is a ten-syllabic one. Cesure appears after the fourth, in every verse. I personally don't know any example of a poem where quantitative aspect of the verse is skipped.
Once again great work Farya! Your music creates bridges between modern people and their cultural roots.
Serbian singer and composer Slobodan Trkulja may explain you a lot with his works.
th-cam.com/video/5Acq-5epQYU/w-d-xo.html
A anime or manga based on him would be epic
Great rythm my bro!
But this was not Balkan this was Hum or Humlje before.
every day man learn more about history. :)
"Half of wine he drinks,half to his horse he gives"
I'm Hispanic and this song is a masterpiece
the chad has delivered on his promise
Honestly the only chad here is my man Marko
You nailed it. This sounds exactly how I, a Serbian, would imagine an epic version of our older folk songs, this is simply flawless. I especially appreciate the percussion rythm, which is very often used in various songs throughout Serbia, most commonly, in, surprisingly, the fan songs on footbal stadiums, almost all of those songs are based around that beat.
Haha yeah that percussive rythm is a stable in the Balkans, I've heard it everywhere in South Slavic songs. Glad to know the tradition lives on in the football stadiums :p
Who would have thought that something as trivial as football, which is, in a way, nothing more than our modern equivalent to the common man’s territoriality that once was expressed in war, would be such a factor in preserving folk culture. It’s pretty interesting.
@@faryafaraji please do one the lions for Punjab
@Ebazel Marko Mrnjavčević (better known as Kraljević Marko), son of Vukašin, was an Serb, no matter how hard you Bulgarians cried...
@@nikolamiloradovic8108 Well, I personally don't know whether Marko was Serbian or Bulgarian but the song used as the background here is Bulgarian (trite puti)
жив је Марко док је сунца и мјесеца ❤❤❤
Amin.
Marko Kraljević is serbian national hero, son of Vukašin Mrnjavčević (King of Serbia). Good job bro! Greetings from Serbia! 🇷🇸
King of Serbia= princ!
Car=master of Serbia!
@@kolobara08 nothing but half-truths and cheap propaganda in this tirade of yours.
Не секташи него погледај чији су љиљани! Знам ја да те боли што немате народне хероје. А о томе да је Марко Краљевић вазал је сувишно говорити са тобом који прича о бошњацима 90их. Задојен си мржњом према генима брате! И не кривим те, има много таквих! Зато што је твоја "нација" прављена на основу мржње према Србима. Желим ти сву срећу, памет у главу.
То што би ви да је све Балканско што ваља то мачку о реп, него ти мили потражи цркву у близини и враћај се на фабричка подешавања ако већ Марка, Твртка и остале сматраш својима. Будите ви паметни бар кад су вам преци били пичкурине, па се против сабље гузицом бранили
@@danicadabic9789c’est l’histoire Marko était de la puissante famille de chevalier serbes les mrnjacevic. C’est un faite. Quelle demi vérité vous évoquer ?
St. Sabas of Serbia, pray for us and for the Slavic peoples.
Serbian noble man!
I am a Bulgarian and I grew up with tales about Marko, this is a masterpiece!
Super glad to hear that my man!
A masterpiece it is
What city are you from in Bulgaria? I guess western, Vidin-Sofia-Velbuzd..?
@@xZxOxVx the tales of Krali Marko are famous in all of Bulgaria.
@Slavic Asassin We're all related but yet different.Marko kraljevic was Serb,but you know,balkan borders changed so many times,he rulled over today parts of modern macedonia.Greetings from Serbia.
Thank you for this rythm, some maybe interesting info about picture:
On the picture:
- on the left with strange hat - Marko (Mrnjavčević) Kraljević
- on the right with instrument - Miloš Obilić (serbian knight who killed sultan Murat on Kosovo)
- on the top - Vila Ravioila
Painting was made by famous Serbian artist Paja Jovanović
It was inspired by Serbian epic songs in which these great heroes are half brothers and that Vila (something like nimph in greek mythology) is their half sister (which gives them something like half god nature)
Best regards people!
Thanks for the info on the painter, I’ll add it to the description!
We need more of this with alcohol around a campfire
SERBS SERBS SERBS 🐺🐺🐺🦅🦅🦅🦾🦾🦾🦾🦾👑👑👑👑
Prilep 🇲🇰🇲🇰
Thank you from Serbia🇷🇸☦
Man this channel is getting better and better. As a South slav I am spoiled and inspired by your roman, byzantine and Slavic themed music. Also loved the gusle at the beginning. Keep it up, greetings from Croatia!
@Sia at least we are both aryans sooo
@Sia I see the resemblance. I am wondering if that is a Chinese Erhu in the video, is it a traditional instrument in Iran?
@@00MSG I believe it's called a Kamancheh
@Sia Thanks to both for the information, didn't know that
For some reason, there's no Mediaeval Bulgarian epic cycle. There are some songs about the Sun's Bride and the Zmey's Bride, for example, but nothing like Shahnameh, the Arthurian cycle, the Song of Roland, the Digenis Akritas or Beowulf. Only after the Ottoman conquest there slowly forms a cycle of epic folk songs (Serbian and also Bulgarian) about the great characters of the 14th century: King Vukashin, Marko the King's son, the Rhodope warlord Momchil, Hrelyo the Six-winged and some lesser characters related to them. This is the real Slavic mytho-heroic cycle of legends of the Late Medieval Balkans. It starts with the omens on the birth of Marko, passes through a series of epic adventures (some are humoristic, some even obscene) and end with his loss of strength, old age and death. Most of the songs are quite long and have amazing lyrics. This here is a nice tribute to that cycle.
This is something that's true for most Slavic cultures' mythology and folklore, it's relatively difficult to get informed about that as a foreigner since it wasn't compiled in literature for a long time, as you said, in contrast with Greek, Iranian, Indian mythology, etc. Which is a real shame; people around the world really need to know more about this body of heroic cycles. Even from a very cynical point of view, all this material would be a goldmine for Hollywood, since they're always after the next fantasy movie/series. I've always dreamed of seeing the history and mythology of the ancient Slavs and Balkans put to screen with the same ambition as something like Lord of the Rings. A man can dream haha
@@faryafaraji It is compiled in literature but it is not translated to english. Who cares about Slavs in Europe? Nobody, so I dont care if they are ignorant about our culture. And Lord of the rings is bad movie because director knows nothing about epics. Tolkien knew about old norse poetry and saga but he also knew there is no direct line to modern western culture. Serbian epic poetry was never broken to this day and Tolkien tried to learn serbian to read our epic poems and stories in original but found language too difficult. It is probably for the best, look what they did to the vampires lol.
King of Serbia Marko Kraljević
Вазал.
@@Niklot81Мање него било који владар Србије од Милана Недића па све до данас!
Један је Марко!
This is really cool... thanks also for explaining who Marko was, appreciate the music and the story behind it!
@HistorywithCy Hello Cy, actually Marco Kraleviti is a real, historical figure with aristocratic background of disputed origin. Ther are medieval and late medieval authors, who described him as an ancestor of the Bulgarian Bolyar called Smiletz.(check up Paisius of Hillendar, a monk).The Serbs followed information written by Mauro Orbini. Farya as a musitian has got serbian friends to "whisper in his ears" their version. I think people should be more careful to mention all opinions on historical data.
He's Serbian he's name is Marko Kraljević@@dalia_mar
@@dalia_mar Haha what a lie. He is a Serbian btw.
@@UltraSRB1389 Haha, have you got his passport? Serbians are desperate for attention, it seams is a typical characteristic for the Balkans.
A, true Serbian king!
love this man! u grow in my eyes by appreciating our culture through music.
How can one not love the Slavic cultures, especially those of the Balkans. I've always found myself completely enthralled by them
@@faryafaraji im kinda curious, where are YOU actually from
@@user-hp1cu9lc3l I'm Iranian and I live in Canada :)
@@faryafaraji that explains why there is so much iranian music in repertoir😂
@@faryafaraji Dadash I have friends from Tehran I love Persian Culture and History you are our Brothers we are Separated from Eachother we are very similliar in every look 🇷🇸❤️🇮🇷
This is amazing! Love the vibe and atmosphere of this piece.
As a Serb this makes me so joyful ☺️
I'm honoured :)
@@faryafaraji please do the ballards on the lions of punjab like dulla jatt , the great gama , king porus etc
This is such a beautiful homage to Balkan culture and mythology. It really does amaze me how well you've capture the tone and spirit of the tales we all grew up with.
The serbian HE-MAN in this time. 🇷🇸
What a great gift for my Slava patron saint.
As a gusle player myself, I approve this masterpiece.
Respect Farya............Respect!
Amazing Music! Keep it up man you are touching my soul! Please do more Balkan songs like Bulgarian, Serbian, Greek, Romanian our folk music is legendary!
Balkan music is definitely one of the richest folk traditions in the world!
Proud to be Slavic
Perfect! It sounds exactly how I, a Hellenic Vlach from Macedonia, would imagine a Vlachish Epic Folk Music! So I would say it's not strictly Slavic but rather Pan-Balkan, Ancient Macedonian and Thracian Epic Music! Respect!
Definitely, it’s Slavic in terms of the specific theme of the song but musically speaking, it applies to most of the Balkans, especially Vlachs as you put it-bagpipes are a strong musical element in old Vlach music!
I don't know. This is the TH-cam page of Farya Faraji, not a Paleo-Balcanic group or a group of Slavic Traditions, so I don't try to insert myself anywhere.
Anyway although I am definitely not skavophobic, like most of Greeks are, some of them they even call me a russophile, I don't see any obvious Slavic influence in Paleo-Balcanism.
I see more Paleo-Balcanic influence in some Southern Slavic Traditions. And this by no means is meant to be offensive.
Farya Faraji in this video on Celtic bagpipes puts it very well when he sees more e ethnocultural bonds in music than in ethnolinguistic once, kind of how Sprachbunds work, he says...
So that's what I see. I see that there is a strong cultural bund, and in music obviously, in Balkan People('s) just like there is a Balkan Sprachbund. th-cam.com/video/Snx-1AYh1hY/w-d-xo.html
Humor about him and his strength was like Chuck Norris jokes.
Најлепша је наша музика балкана
I love this channel as my ancestry is based in Balkans and the accuracy and correctness of these is beyond crazy-- this sounds exactly and very close to the serbian folklore songs that we have in Kosovo & Metohija (Serbia). Huge thanks once again @Farya Faraji! Amazing job!
No credits to me, all I did was research the dances and reproduce them closely, it's a really beautiful folkloric style!
My half-Slavic soul is enjoying while listening to it, thank you so much for this piece, Farya! ^^
Gracias hermano
Iam peruvian and i would love to hear a old inka music composed by you.
I'd love to, I really want to start studying the native music of South America soon!
This is beyond amazing! I think you should come to Balkans for a visit, since you understand our music so incredibly well. Sepas! :-)
It's definitely one of my biggest dreams to visit the Balkans, it has some of my favourite cultures on earth
This is just WOOW! Big respect from serbian patriot!
Beautiful!
In North Albania we use the first instrument of this video!
We call it as Lahuta/Lavda(Glory) and we used that to tell sad events,heroic events and heroes story of also some Serbian figure such as Miloš Obilic(in Albanian we call him Milosh Kopiliqi) and also about Marko fight Muša.
Respect🇦🇱🇷🇸
Much respect!! We share so many cultural aspects throughout the Balkans that are similar or the same!❤🇦🇱🇲🇪🇷🇸
@@dollynina8992 Might be somehow similar, but we are sort of Slavic peoples while Albanians are sort of indigenous.
@@Svevladovich Albanians are never indigenous of Europe.. Serbians and others like Bulgaria, Croatia, bosnia, Macedonia, Montenegro: have more than 1/3 of the population that is indigenous to Europe for something like 30k or some say 5k years.
@@alek6208 Serbs and Croats are Slavo-Illyrians
@@Svevladovich yes, unlike Albanians
What a masterpiece! Would you like to create a song like that for Greek heroes as well? As a Greek i would love to see something similar.
Well, it seems I just found a new song for my training at gym.. 😀
The giant slayer using this as his fight intro music and dancing to it sent me here. I fell deeply in love with Slav/Balkan music since Percival introduced me to that genre. Brilliant job there Farya
Kind of got the greek pontiac vibe to it love im american with polish roots 🇺🇲🇵🇱
Farya Faraji never disappoints, and here he is once again making another folkloric masterpiece.
Salute to you Ustaz
Real name of the Balkan (turkik word) is Hlm or Hum.It means land of hills and forests.
Anyway, I love Balkan and all its people living there!We sometimes dont know how rich in culture and traditions we are!!
Serb here. You absolutely nailed it. You are extremely talented my friend and I hope you continue to make music for years to come. Your addition of the gusla in the prologue and epilogue is the icing on the cake.
Оро је Три пута или Трите пати
Im hungarian with serbian and croatian heritage, and I think this one slaps
Netflix should make a whole series about Marko. That ought to be fun.😂
You're gracing us with too many beautiful things lately 💖
Good work Persian brother.
Wilder saftiger Sound, nach Abenteuer, Freiheit, Natur und scharfem bohneneintopf mit viel paprika ,knoblauch,,und Brot zum dazu essen ,
Ty u for this piece of art, iam following ur work and honestly thought that after composion fall of constantinople simply cant go any better. Thanks for demanting me, and keep doing amasing job, respekt and love from Serbia! P. S. Forgot to add i just adore ur version on 135 psalam❤️
Oh man, what a treat, you really brought the story you described to life with this piece. You'd make for an entertaining companion at the fireside no doubt :)
Honestly around firesides it's either me playing music or being hallucinated by the fire and not talking lol, idk maybe it's the Zoroastrian ancestry
❤️❤️Love it!❤️❤️
This be bopping me hearties!
Absolutely love this one!
Bravo. Perfect
Amazing 😮
Your works are such masterpieces, I am enjoying this channel so much. Thank you!
Unique! Bravo!!! Много добро!!!
Love it! 🙌🏽
Awesome
Joy of the fight can be heard in the melody. Great job.
Excellent work! Great melody. Very upbeat and fun to listen to. :)
This is fookin epic
This is amazing 🔥 it’s unreal how authentic you made it sound. Love your work!
Great music! Thank you for it! Greetings from Hungary!
I am a Bosnian ancient and mediaeval coin collector living in Australia. You are more than just a musical genius.
I keep coming back to your music for my workouts and on my walks to school. This one, the epic sparta one and Hikanatoi in particular are very good. I hope there will be more upbeat/warrior type songs in the future! Best wishes to you.
You entered my 🧬
With this beautiful music I got curiosity about learning more about kraljevic Marko
Ово слушам на тренингу
I love this, it gives me the ridem
I've put off listening to this one for a while. Now I have, and surprise surprise, it slaps.
I guess I intuitively knew I can digest only so much quality content a month.
Cant stop listening to this, the Three Ways/ Three Times beat is presented magnificently! Хвала!
This is a fun beat!
Truly a masterpiece. This is very very similar to our music. And amazing.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Man, im obsesed with your music those days!! It will be interesting to hear your version of the song for Kapitan Petko Voivoda! Continue with the great music that you are making!
Please can you make something similar for King Vukasin Mrnjavcevic Marko's father.
You've just doomed me dude. Now I have to bang to this till my head fall off...
Amazing song greetings from Greece my friends
As a half Thracian half Macedonian Greek I love this master work of @Farya!!!!!
This piece has such an amazing tempo!! Loving all the historical research that went into its creation!
Great as usual! Maybe you should make a gusle(serbian lyra) epic composition!:)
♥♥SLAVA RODU! ♥♥
🙏❤️🙏
Brother you must to a ancient DACIAN music, please. Nice work love from 🇷🇴 🇵🇹 ♥
He died in Rovine. Thanks for your music!!
The Witcher of Balkan
Свака част Фарја
Amazing job Farja
Everbody is dancing now 😂
nice nice
Wow
👏👏👏
Nice song! Greetings from Ukraine!
Marko don't plow the roads. Turks dont step on my tillage
Fun fact, most of the time Marko Kraljević fights some albanian guy called Musa.
As an Albanian I did some research because of this comment lol, and found out that Musa was based on southern Albanian Prince Theodor Corona Muzaka III. Apparently they had some territorial conflicts over a city. Also, I believe Musa is portrayed as a Muslim in south Slavic legends (?), which is ofc not accurate since Theodor was Orthodox and the Muzaka family members in particular are documented as being very religious Christians. It was really cool to learn about this tho
i am Slav. i am wolf of balkan mountains ...hail all high blood slavs
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I'm rooting for Musa, nice poem though.
The real Marko was a little different, but we are in the balkans, every bandit has its oun epic song 😂.
Great music i like gusle (we have our version called lahuta) and gajde.
The music sounds alot like beogradski sindikat svedok i like it
I just have a question, what is that leading instrument called, I've heared it everywhere. Sounds like a violin (not really) so it must be some stringed instrument.
This is absolutely fantastic
Nevermind, it sounds like gajde, are they? Its like a mix of instruments combined into one
If you mean the main instrument throughout the song, it’s a gaida bagpipe, althouth there’s also a kaval flute playing the melody alongside it
@@faryafaraji Yes! The flute I recognized but the gajde! Your music is on another level, just saying
Another question though!
In dance of the spartans, the main instrument are also the bagpipes or something different?
@@viktorvicanovic3548 In Dance of the Spartans it’s a mantouras and an aulos. They’re all reed instruments like bagpipes, so they’re part of the same family
Lepa glasba o narodnem junaku, kraljevič Marku...
Ћ.
Србија!!!