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PRIMARY CLASSIFICATION Song
SECONDARY CLASSIFICATION Ritual (on occasion)
THEME Usual
SOCIAL FUNCTION Wedding
FORM Four-row: 2-row + repetition
TEXTURE Two voices
METER Non-measured
WAY OF PERFORMANCE Group (no response)
ETHNIC DATA Bulgarian
TYPE Authentic
RECORDED BY THE FOLKLORIST Nikolay Kaoufman
DATE OF RECORD 1955
PLACE OF RECORD Sofiia
ARCHIVE ITEM - NUMBER 148.1795
RECORDING MEDIA Recording tape
INFORMANT/S Petra
INFORMANT - PLACE OF BIRTH Bobishta
COUNTY Makedonia
FOLK MUSIC AREA Bulgarian songs abroad
ARCHIVE ELABORATION No data at this stage
TITLE / LYRICS Venchi pope venchi

Venchi, pope, venchi
nashata nevesta,
venchi, pope, venchi
nashata neve'

nashata nevesta
da ni se kerdosa
momche i nevesta!
Veseliay se, koume,
tvoia e veselia,
tvoia e shireva!
NOTES OF THE FOLKLORIST Tb: tvoia e shireva = shiri se, gordee se
Ob: /produljenie ot nomer 236/ Posle minavat svekurvata
i rodninite, tselouvat evangelieto, sled tova tselouvat mlado-
jentsite i veseli pleskat rutse i vikat:"Da ni se kerdosat!"
Niakoi otzad potoupvat starite na shega po gurba. Kato izlezat
ot cherkva, otivat ou mladojenetsa. Tam gi posreshtat na vratata
s hleb, med i zlato /prusteni, grivni/. Nevestata topi prust
v medo i maji vratata /da bude sladka kato med/ i vliza vku-
shti, a choupite mou pee na nevestata. Predi da sleze ot konia nev
estata, choupite y peiat /pesen 238/
NOTES OF THE ARCHIVIST NK.205.2.1. /an.-op. RN i MGP zv.op. IDK/

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