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PRIMARY CLASSIFICATION Song
SECONDARY CLASSIFICATION Ritual (calendar customs)
THEME Usual
SOCIAL FUNCTION Christmas - Koleda
FORM Three-row + refrain
TEXTURE Monophonic
METER 5/16
WAY OF PERFORMANCE Solo singing
ETHNIC DATA Bulgarian
TYPE Authentic
RECORDED BY THE FOLKLORIST Mihail Boukoureshtliev
DATE OF RECORD 1964
PLACE OF RECORD Dobrina
ARCHIVE ITEM - NUMBER 226.3621
RECORDING MEDIA Recording tape
INFORMANT/S Iliia
INFORMANT - PLACE OF BIRTH Dobrina
COUNTY Provadia
FOLK MUSIC AREA North-eastern Bulgaria
ARCHIVE ELABORATION Inventory, deciphered
TITLE / LYRICS Dobri choban stado mami

Dobri choban stado mami
(hey, Dobri, kolade le,
moy Dobri, kolade le+)

mami si go tatuk gore,
tatuk gore v planinata,
v planinata, v ravninata,
sreshtoum sreshta Boja mayka
NOTES OF THE FOLKLORIST Tb: Ist sv: Seloto ima okolo 350 kushti. Prez toursko vreme se
e kazvalo Jvezdarkevo. Chisto bulgarsko selo, pochti niama prim
es ot drougade. Niakolko semeystva ima ot Odrinsko, no te sa
"Pocher..ili veche"/Bo: ne se chete/ .
Ob: Opisanie na obichaia "Kamila" sreshtou Vasilyovden:
Do 1947g. sa koledouvali, a za Vasilovden "maksirvat se s
klopki", na glavite si slagat koja, kratouni, nay-razlichni ne
shta. Sreshtou Vasilyovden hodiat tezi maskirani hora i gi narichat
"kamili". Kamilite sa na edna groupa. Koyto komandva kamilite
e "adji baba". Toy si ima boulka, koiato sourovaka stopanina.
Kamilata ia guta na zemiata adji babata i toy ia lekouva i kadiat
okolo kamilata. Boulkata e na arapina i toy ia vardi da ne ia
otkradnat. Kakvoto suberat, ostavat na chitalishteto i edin moa
bet si napraviat. Tozi praznik stava na vecherta sreshtou Vasi-
lyovden do drougiia den.
ne spolaia = ne poslousha
NOTES OF THE ARCHIVIST MB.72.1.29. /an.-op. MGP zv.op. IDK/
s. Dobrina Provadiysko Vn SIB
Iliia Dobrev Genov 1913
F: Na chobanin
Obr: Deshifrirala Radka Nikolova
Zvr: e2 d2 c2 h1 a1 /g1/
Itsf: d2 - g1, d2 - a1

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