Doina

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The Doina (IPA: ['doj.na]) is a Romanian musical tune style, having its roots in the music-laments of the Romanian shepherds (Vlachs).

It can be found as a genre of Klezmer music (due to borrowing).

Doina is poetic and often melancholic, sometimes compared to the blues for that reason. Doinas are often played with a slow, free rhythm melody against a fast accompaniment pattern in fixed tempo, giving an overall feeling of rhythmic tension. Melodies are sometimes repeated in differing songs, and typically follow a descending pattern.

Regional styles of doina:

Ca pe luncă - found along the southern Danube
De codru - codru means "forest"
Haiduceşti - haiduc means "outlaw" or "brigand"
Hora lungă - Maramureş
Klezmer - played by Jewish musicians from Bessarabia and Moldavia
Oltului - found along the Olt River

Other styles of doina:

Ca din tulnic - unique type in which the melody imitates a type of Alpenhorn called the tulnic
Ciobanul - shepherd's doina
De dragoste - popular form, usually about love; dragoste means "love".
De jale - mellow, mournful doina; jale means "grief".
De leagăn - a lullaby; leagăn means "cradle".
De pahar - drinking song; pahar means "drinking glass".
Foaie verde - classical form; literally "green leaves".

The very origin of the word "doina" is unknown and it is spread throughout Romania and Moldova. The word could be of Indo-European origin, since a similar form of music (daina) can be found in Latvia and Lithuania.

Doina is also the title of one of the most important poems by Mihai Eminescu, probably the best-known and most influential Romanian poet. In it, he speaks of a Greater Romania stretching "from the Dniester to the Tisza", naming the two rivers which in traditional Romanian thought have always been considered the nation's coordinates.

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