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citlālicue
Sat, 08/07/2017 - 23:42
I never got the chance to thank you for your transliteration, it's really helpful for someone who doesn't know a lick of Bulgarian. I can now at the very least follow along with the song :)
CherryCrush
Sun, 09/07/2017 - 00:12
You're very welcome! Glad I was able to help and please ask if you have any questions.
This song is actually in a dialect from around the Strandzha mountain, which is the southeastern Bulgaria (very close to the Turkish border), thus its sound is not like the typical Bulgarian due to bigger Turkish influence in that region.
I just listened to the song in the video, these lyrics written down are not from Iva Davidova's version. I've changed the video to match it and moved it to Bulgarian folk - I can't find Iva's version online though, all lyrics seem to be about this one. It is rather typical that sometimes singers make "newer" versions adjusted to sound more familiar to the younger people.
citlālicue
Sun, 09/07/2017 - 00:22
Yes, I noticed it sounded a little different from what I've been listening to. I was just googling other versions and realized it didn't match Iva's version. I saw another version somewhere, I'm not sure if it's a more common one: http://folkdancemusings.blogspot.com/2014/03/mari-mariiko-bulgaria.html
CherryCrush
Sun, 09/07/2017 - 00:42
I am not the best expert in Bulgarian folk music I'm afraid - I have never heard that version, but listening to the video it sounds like a different song to me due to the completely different meaning of the lyrics on the same melody as the video I have uploaded (and it sounds like a different dialect from the Rhodope mountains, which is southwest Bulgaria). But I guess some folk songs have just different regional variations (although I've never seen one to differ so much).
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