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Hi.My name is Deni from the school "Vlado Tasevski "- Skopje.
In this text i will write for basic feature of Macedonian
folk dances and songs.
BASIC FEATURES OF MACEDONIAN FOLK DANCES ARE:
*In the course of the dance,men expressed
their strenght and power,the high quality
dancing,stressed their individuality in the
group singing;
*Women stressed their individuality in the
group dances,then their goodness,modesty and
limited physical strenght,and gift to dance
in a synchronaized unity;
*According to the dancers composition folk
dances are divided into mens womens and
mixed (men and women) folk dances;
*According to the way dancers form a
circle in order to preform the dance,folk
dances are divided into:Dances in which
the dancers hold each other by the belt;
then dances in which the dancers hold each
other by the shoulders or hands;than dances
in which the dancers are holding each other
by the shoulders and by the hands.
*According to the dance steps,folk dances
are divided into simple dances and several
step dances.
MACEDONIAN FOLK COSTUME is a typical representative of the
material folklore.it was created as a reflection of
ethno-cultural history,iprowed through centuries under
the inflence of social and political factors, as well
as of cultural ties,primarily with neighboring nations
and cultures.The exquisite embroidery on folk costumes
is a reflection of the everday life,as well as of the
composition of colors,which resulted from the way in
which people worked,what they worked with and what
they believed in. In the past the cultivation of the landwas always linked
with and followed by various beliefs,rites,magical and
other ceremonies,inspired by the desire to provide,on one
hand,more fertility of the land and abundance of the crops,
and on the other to protect the from bad weather, to
eliminate or prevent many accidents,misfortunes,
diseases and other unpredictible mishaps,as well as to
secure good health and strenght of people and livestock
in order to presist in the hardships of the farming.
Since the start of preparatory works until the
planting of fields,collection of grains into barns
and picking of fields crops, the ehtire life of the
farmer was filled with constant concerns about the field.
These cusoms orginate from these concerns and from the
incapabilityof perciving the true roots of various natural
phenomena,upon which he was alwaysdependet.They preserved
many Pagan elements dating from pre-Christianity,that
later on with the advance of christianity,were partially
incorporated in them, as their integral part or continued
with their parallel life, thus begin maintained until
to day.
Season migration of laborer-harvesters who worked in close
or distant places in macedonia over the summer months
cotributed to spreading of certain customs.It is
well-known ,for instance,that at that time the the
population of Kozjak and Shiroka Mountin,called Shopi,
were mostly working as laborer-harvesters.their work
in other places resulted from the fact that their
arable land was located in higher places so for
example, when the harvest would end in Kumanovo,
and the grain was than trashing ans placed in barns
the harvest will then start in Kozjak villages.
in addition to laborer-harvesters from Kozjak
villages,Shopi laborers from the area of
Kriva Palanka,Kratovo and Skopje even from
Ovce Pole especially from its northwesteren part,
known as Kotorci ,used to com to lower altitude
places.
MACEDONIAN FOLK DANCES AND SONGS are prehaps the most
valuble culturaland artistic heritage of the macedonian
nation.As an expression of the artistic gifts of their
creator -the nature,they have had quite a long life and
have survived all challangestime posed,in all historic
stages of social developments,becoming thus richer and
more atractive.Folk dances and songs representing a
sythesis of all features inherent to one nation are
equalized with that nation destiny.Searching for a
medium to express their sentiments,in times of awakend
national awareness and growing ispiration,all that the
Macedonians colud not express with common words was
transposed into folk dances and songs.Each of those
songs and dances has its message and destiny.Therefore,
it can be said that folk songs and dances are inherent
to the cultural identity of Macedonian nation and are
therefore so much loved and have accompanied the
Macedonian nation in its threading the historic paths,
despite the great number of moderen forms of artistic
expressions that modern Macedonians enjoy to day.
All above stated about the superb folk arts,interwoven
in the dances and songs of the macedonian folklore is
projected on the spirit of the dancer,during the
preparation for performance and during the performance
of folk dances,dancing and thus traveling with the folk
dance through time and space,searching and comprehending
the reasons for this or that step,body movment,or
movement of the leg,hand,head,look of the eye,etc.
Dejan Boskov
EASTER is one of the bigest holidays in Macedonia.Everyone goes to the church
on this day with the family.As a tradition on this day eggs are painted in
different colours,especially in red.On Thursday before easter,before
sunrise,must be paint the first egg in red,and the other eggs are painted in
the following day.
It's tradition the first egg the one painted before sunrise,to be used for
giving a blessing from God by passing over the children's faces by the oldest
member of the family.
Igor Trimcevski e-mail: igor_bt@usa.net
Hay my name is Vasil Iljovski. I'm a student in secondari school in ASUC.In this text i will write about macedonian music and the Struggle for Cultural Revival.
Music
Macedonia has an exceptionally rich musical heritage. The numerous studies, among which we can single out the most recent work by Sotir Golabovski, Octoechos, on the tradition of Macedonian spiritual and church singing, are a significant contribution to Macedonian and Balkan cultural history. The Composers Association of Macedonian today has 60 composers as members. After the founding generation of modern Macedonian classical music, consisting of Trajko Prokopiev, Todor Skalovski, Stefan Gajdov and Zivko Firtov, came the work of Kiril Makedonski, Gligor Smokvarski, Vlastimir Nikolovski, Toma Prosev, Tomislav Zografski, Mihailo Nikolovski, Ljubomir Brangolica and Risto Avramovski.The Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra, established in 1944, is the oldest cultural institution in the field of music. There are also six active chamber and other music ensembles, three professional and about twenty amateurs choirs. The professional ensemble ‘Tanec’ represents the richness of Macedonian folklore and songsand there are 10 other folklore ensembles which are active on a semi-professionalbasis. Each year about 50,000 people attend the concerts of the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra and the various folk dance ensembles and other cultural and artistic associations. In addition to the concert held as part of the Ohrid Summer Festival, an annual festival of classical music named Interfest was established in Bitola a few years ago. Folk music is one of most cherished areas of Macedonian culture, and several folk festival take place each year. The oldest is Folk-Fest, held in Valandovo, and it is interesting to not that most festival have further showings among Macedonian expatriates in Australia and Canada. The Festival of Old Town Songs in Ohrid and the Ilinden Days of Folk Song in Bitola are events which nourish traditional Macedonian songs.Mak-Fest in Stip and the Skopje Festival are the two best-known festivals of popular music in Macedonia. The pop-group ‘Leb I Sol’, with its original music which uses traditional folk themes and rhythms, has been active for over twenty years and become widely known beyond the frontiers of Macedonia.
The Struggle for Cultural Revival
The Struggle of the Macedonian people for the preservation of Slavonic literacy and cultural identity, although conducted in extremely difficult circumstance, never ceased. In the 17th and 18th centuries, there was a period in Macedonia of translating collections with different contents called damascenes in which elements of the Macedonia colloquial speech where created in Macedonia. The struggle for autonomous spiritual and cultural life and schools in the Macedonian language, although hampered by the Greek clergy through the Constantinople Patriarchal, proceeded uninterruptedly. In the 1830s the foundations were laid of the first Macedonian church-educational communities.Macedonia intelligentsia fought the war for Macedonian culture and education on two fronts simultaneous: against the Greek clergy which tried through its Patriarchal schools to impose the Greek Language, and against at the imposition of the Bulgarian language in their schools. This resistance and the endeavors for the establishment of a Macedonian literary standard expressed the aspirations for an independent national development. The first to introduce the use of the Macedonian language in textbooks was Partenije Zografski. Among the numerous writers of textbooks in Macedonian, of particular significance were Dimitar Miladinov, Kuzman Sapkarev, Venijamin Macukovski and Gorgi Pulevski. An event of extreme importance for Macedonian culture was the publication in 1861of a collections of Macedonian folk songs by Konstantin Miladinov the emergence of modern Macedonian poetry is also associated with his name. Macedonia intellectuals from the second half of the 19th century organized themselves into numerous societies and circle whose purpose was to study the historical past, culture, language and customs of the Macedonian people, thus combatting the propaganda of the neighboring states. In the 1880s, Pulevski affirmed the autonomous status of the Macedonian language with his two dictionaries. In 1903, Krste Petkov Misirkov raised the Macedonian language to the level of a standard literary language.
Vasil Iljovski
The word folklore in the literally translate means folk knows and folk wisdom. Accordingly some scientists this word has been interpreted as traditional believing and folkways kept by one nation. In this word are including folktales , folkways , superstition and other ways of spiritual lives on village dweller. Pour of oral folklore leads to oldest epoch of history of human culture and appearance of speech. Folk songs are with element of play, melody and speech inseparable connects with the labor. The folklore has its own special characteristic and marker. When it has been appeared , as the result of how and under which influence the interest to folklore at the Balkans people. The interest at the Balkans people, especially Slovenian have been increased with the appearance of Vuk S. Karadzich-central figure of serbian folklore. Under his influence and the other Balkan’s people showed interest for folklore and folk folklore. In Croatia have placard the name of Philip Grabovac, in Slovenia is Pohlin. In Macedonia the interest for collecting of Macedonian folklore material has been appeared at the end of the nineteen century with names of brothers Dimitar and Konstantin Miladinovi and continue with name of Marko Cepenkov. In their collected material we can meet their folk songs and folktales which are identical with folk songs and folk tales of other Balkan’s peoples.
Written by students:
Riste Gjoshev class Z2
Slavica Stojanovska class A2a
Mentor:
professor Karolina Ivanovska
SCCS Zdravko Cvetkovski Skopje
The word folklore in the literally translate means folk knows and folk wisdom. Accordingly some scientists this word has been interpreted as traditional believing and folkways kept by one nation. In this word are including folktales , folkways , superstition and other ways of spiritual lives on village dweller. Pour of oral folklore leads to oldest epoch of history of human culture and appearance of speech. Folk songs are with element of play, melody and speech inseparable connects with the labor. The folklore has its own special characteristic and marker. When it has been appeared , as the result of how and under which influence the interest to folklore at the Balkans people. The interest at the Balkans people, especially Slovenian have been increased with the appearance of Vuk S. Karadzich-central figure of serbian folklore. Under his influence and the other Balkan’s people showed interest for folklore and folk folklore. In Croatia have placard the name of Philip Grabovac, in Slovenia is Pohlin. In Macedonia the interest for collecting of Macedonian folklore material has been appeared at the end of the nineteen century with names of brothers Dimitar and Konstantin Miladinovi and continue with name of Marko Cepenkov. In their collected material we can meet their folk songs and folktales which are identical with folk songs and folk tales of other Balkan’s peoples.
Written by students:
Riste Gjoshev Slavica Stojanovska
We are students in second year in civil engeenering secondary school.
Our school is in the capital town, Skoje, of our country, Macedonia.
Mentor:
professor: Karolina Ivanovska
SCCS "Zdravko Cvetkovski", Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
WEDDING CUSTOMS FROM STRUGA
During the holidays, many young men and womed get together in front of the church. There, they sing and dance separately. It's the best chance for the young men to choose their future wifes. If they fall in love with some young woman, they give each othe
r different gifts...
On Thursday, before the wedding, the son-in-low's family chooses the witnesses. On Saturday, an unleavened bread is made and the relatives of the young man arrive. The wedding is on Sunday. In the morning, the son-in-low shaves himself surrounded by gils
who sing and dance. Then, they leave their home and go to the bride's home, first, flag-bearer, then the friends, the relatives, the parents and, at the end the son-in-low together with the brothers-in-low.
At the bride's home, her relatives sing and welcome the wedding guests. Then, they give each other the gifts, and the unleavened breads. The bride's brother beats the son-in-low and puts a rag over his shoulder. The brothers-in-low take the bride and eve
rybody goes to the church. After the wedding ceremony, they go to the son-in-low's home, where the bride welcomes the guests. The witnesses ask newlyweds different questions. The next day the guests have a dinner, dance, sing and share the bread. The next
morning brandy is drunk. In the evening, the newlyweds, the father and mother-in-low come at the wife's parents' house to have a dinner.
Jane Stojanoski, A2-b
DSGU "Zdravko Cvetkovski" - Skopje
mentor:teacher Vesna Trpkovska
Easter
Easter or also known as Jesus Resurrection is the greatest holiday in orthodox church.
On this day before 2000 years, paying for humans sins and saving the world from evil he died after he was put on cross.
But he resurrected on the third evening, after his death, and went to the sky where he lives saint life.
That’s the greatness of this day, of this holiday above the others. This holiday begins to celebrate few weeks before the great day with the Easters way of eating -–people don't eat oil, and greasy food.
When human being do that, he should do that with his body and soul. Doing that he erases bad sins which he did. Those are days when people shouldn’t make bad things, etc. After this days early in the morning on Great Saturday or on Easter’s day , those who were doing that, go to the church to take holly diner – vine and peace of bread. Then day they are leave on red egg on the table and they are walking under the table. The table presents the bed where Jesus was born.
Symbol of these day is also coloring eggs early in the morning on Great Thursday – last Thursday before Easter. The red color of the egg is symbol of Jesus blood.
The night towards Sunday people used to get together home or in some holly temples celebrating. On midnight people are breaking with the colored egg’s.
Easter is base of the Christians religion. Every Christian should celebrate this holiday with love in his heart.
I will finish with one of the symbols of these day, on Macedonian language.
“HRISTOS VOSKRESE, VAISTINA VOSKRESE”
Angelovska Elena, Ivona Janoska 2 dentist technician
State Medical High School Dr Pance Karagjozov – Skopje, Macedonia
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