Folk songs/ folk singing

Basic idea:
- Participants of each country send 3-5 folk songs with lyrics
- As a leader of the workshop I choose max. 2 folk songs, if necessary I arrange them by myself.
- Songs' theme should be positive and entertaining.
- The melody should have typical repetitive music intervals and rhythms, specific for each country (e.g. Slovenian typical folk interval is a tierce (terce), most common rhythm is ¾, 4/4).
- Participants should bring a small typical folk instrument (they should let me know which one by the end of June). Then they make a detailed presentation of their instrument on a poster or in a PowerPoint presentation.
- We talk about the songs’ lyrics in order to link it in some way with the folk fairytale workshop.
- The end of the workshop will be oriented towards finding common ground with other workshops.

Expectations:

- To learn 12 folk songs.
- To become familiar with each country's typical music intervals and rhythms.
- To get to know basics about each country's folk instruments and to present one in detail.
- “Exhibit” the presentation posters.
- To sing 6 folk songs in the final production (1 from each country).

Tasks for participants:
Participants of each country send 3-5 folk songs with lyrics before end of June (music notation or a recording of the song, which cannot be turbo folk arrangement, lyrics should be at least roughly translated to English)

Minimum number of participants: 5

Leader: Špela Drašler
Contact: speladrasler@yahoo.com

About the leader:

Špela is 24 years old. She decided to be in this exchange, because she was on similar exchanges twice; in Germany and in Slovenia. Being a workshop leader was something new for her. She studied music in the pedagogical faculty of the University of Maribor. She is the conductor of two choirs: MePZ Bistrica ob Sotli and MoPZ Podčetrtek. She likes this job very much. She also loves to sing in a choir and that is why she sings in Vokal group Orans (from Bistrica ob Sotli) and in a really good choir in Maribor – Akademski pevski zbor Maribor (The Maribor Academic choir). She also sang in SNG Maribor (Slovenian national theater of Maribor in Opera). Besides singing, she also enjoys riding a bike and spending some quality time by the sea.

This project is supported by Eurpean Comission. Contents of the website are excluding in responsabality of the author and they do not represent opinions of European comission.

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