Calendar People’s Songs -. Rite lyric folk songs, related to certain holidays from the annual calendar. The most numerous are the songs accompanying rites with winter and spring celebrations. Although they leave the impression and collision, and Christmas, and vasilic songs, however, with its number and motive diversity, the most striking are the guiding, Lazarus and Gjurgeen songs. The guiding and lazarum songs glorify the individual and family, and meet groups of women. After an established order, each member of the family is singing a special song, depending on his age. Iaurish songs, however, are singing in the harvesting of herbs or swinging swings and hanging the awakening of nature after the long winter dream, as well as the intimate feelings of the youth. Easter songs in many ways have been rosition of Jesus Christ, and they are singing for various saints of the Christian faith: St. Nicholas, St. Elijah, Holy Sunday, Holy Five, etc. And while some songs are met with highlighting, such as the collans, vasilic, etc., others have a developed tune and high aesthetic values in terms of developed guidance custom by singing with sound types of findings of the fortress Kale, Strezevo (ⅵ c. ) an interference with your feet in the village. Bituse, Debar poetics, such as mentioned guidance, Lazarus and Gjurgjovdan songs. In all of them, more layers of folk culture, the contamination of Christian with older pagan-ski introduced, as well as a series of elements of the old Slavic mythology. Earlier these songs were more related to the ritual, and less was taken into account of the aesthetic value of the song, but with time it gradually increased at the expense of the very rite. Lit.: Kiril Penakliski, selected folklore papers, 2, Skopje, 1988; Marko Kitevski, Macedonian People’s Lika, (ritual songs), Skopje, 1997; Blaze Ristovski, Macedonian folklore and national consciousness, 1, Skopje, 1987. M. Keith. Omer Ahmed Kaleshi.
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