Dumka
Dumka ( Ukrainian думка , dúmka ) is a genre of folk songs that are often sung in the Slavic region with the accompaniment of the bandura and the kobsa (related to the Romanian cobză ). Some of them are very old and mainly focus on the battles of the Cossacks with the Turks and Tartars or scenes from family life.
The term goes back to the Ukrainian word dumka , a diminutive of the word duma . During the 19th century, composers from other Slavic countries began to use the dumka as a classical form of introverted, self-absorbed compositions (with a few cheerful sections in between). Dvořák used the dumka form in various compositions, e.g. B. in his "Dumka" for solo piano, Op. 35; at Slavonic Dance No. 2 , with his string sextet , his piano quintet No. 2, Op. 81 and especially in his Dumky Trio op. 90. Tchaikovsky also used this form: in his "Dumka" for piano op. 59.
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- ↑ Meyers Konversationslexikon . 1885-1892