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	Chastushka Poetry on PoetrySoup
		Chastushka: A type of traditional Russian poetry, is a single quatrain in trochaic tetrameter with an abab or abcb rhyme scheme.
		Usually humorous, satirical, or ironic in nature, chastushkas are often put to music as well, usually with balalaika or accordion accompaniment.
		The rigid, short structure (and, to a lesser degree, the type of humor used) parallels limericks in British culture.
	www.poetrysoup.com /search_results_form.asp?Form=Chastushka (71 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		Chastushka (), a type of traditional Russian poetry, is a single quatrain in trochaic tetrameter with an abab, abcb or (less frequently) aabb rhyme scheme.
		Usually humorous, satirical, or ironic in nature, chastushkas are often put to music as well, usually with balalaika or accordion accompaniment.
		The last foot of a chastushka line is often a single stressed syllable rather than a full trochee, but no other structural variations are generally allowed.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=chastushka (391 words)

	Welcome to The Florida Orchestra
		The Russian chastushka is a short, simple song for one, two or more singers with rhymed texts on an apparently limitless number of topics.
		Shchedrin explained, “In a chastushka there is always humor, irony and a sharp satire of the status quo, its defenders and the ‘leaders of the people.’ Even such powerful or dreaded names as Marx, Lenin and Stalin have been ridiculed in chastushki.
		[‘Chastushka’ is derived from the adjective chastïy: ‘quick.’] Brevity is the chief characteristic of the chastushka.
	www.floridaorchestra.org /index.php?pag=production&pgnote=116&e_id=176 (1734 words)

	Way to Russia Blogs » Chastushka, Babushka and Russian Hip-Hop
		Back in the 18th century Russian villages witnessed the birth of a new genre called "Chastushka" (a short verse or a song).
		The way Chastushka works is astonishingly similar to freestyle MC and breakdance "battles", except that there's an accordeon and folk singing involved.
		When two Babushkas come out in the circle, they start to dance around each other, and one of them starts to sing.
	blogs.waytorussia.net /item/70 (1086 words)

	How Verses Are Made, Mayakovsky, Art by Zafiris
		The originality of the quatrain, warranting the production of this chastushka, lies in the rhyming of ‘woolly socks’ and ‘smoked-out fox’.
		The effect of the chastushka depends on the device of unexpected rhymes where there is disharmony between the first pair of lines and the second.
		Thus the first two lines can be called subsidiary, or auxiliary.
	www.zafiris.net /articles/how_verses_are_made.htm (477 words)

	Dogterminal: Pug: Monpasie CHASTUSHKA : show dogs: all breeds photos, pedigrees, titles, puppies
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		Children of the dog that are present in the database
		This value indicates an approximate distance between cities where Monpasie CHASTUSHKA* and the other dog(s) from the table live.
	www.dogterminal.com /USA/dogs/pug/Monpasie_CHASTUSHKA (83 words)

	♫ Russian folk song duo "Misha and Natasha From Russia", Brooklyn, New York
		The Tsar freed them from the bond of serfdom, and in return, the Cossacks guarded the Russian borders from unfriendly neighbors.
		This is a lyrical song of suffering in the form of "chastushka" a series of four line folk verses.
		Russian "chastushkas" - series of four line folk verses with accompaniment of balalaika.
	www.barynya.com /duo (1790 words)

	ONG Romania, Portalul organizatiilor neguvernamentale › Poetry Kaleidoscope (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Chastushka (часту́шка), a type of traditional Russian poetry, is a single quatrain in trochaic tetrameter with an abab or abcb rhyme scheme.
		Originally chastushkas were a form of folk entertainment, not intended to be performed on stage.
		The last foot of a chastushka line is often a single stressed syllable rather than a full trochee, but no other structural variations are generally allowed.
	www.teleactivities.org /index.php?name=Poetry_Kaleidoscope-MM&page=chastushka.html (411 words)

	Concerto for Orchestra No. 1, "Naughty Limericks"
		In a chastushka there is always humor, irony and sharp satire of the status quo, its defenders and the âleaders of the people.â Brevity is its chief characteristic.
		Its specifically musical traits are a four-square and asymmetric structure, a deliberately primitive melody of few notes, driving syncopated rhythm, improvisation, repetition involving variation, and most of all a sense of humor pervading both words and music.
		Unfortunately the chastushka is associated in the minds of many musicians with simple tunes of eight bars, suggesting nothing but boredom.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=2480 (657 words)

	Chastushka - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Chastushka (часту́шка), a type of traditional Russian poetry, is a single quatrain in trochaic tetrameter with an abab or abcb rhyme scheme.
		Usually humorous, satirical, or ironic in nature, chastushkas are often put to music as well, usually with balalaika or accordion accompaniment.
		The last foot of a chastushka line is often a single stressed syllable rather than a full trochee, but no other structural variations are generally allowed.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Chastushka (445 words)

	Chastushka \| Topic Definition \| Find the Meaning and Define the Answer of Chastushka (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Chastushka (часту́шка) is a form of Russian traditional song and poetry.
		A chastushka typically is a four-line rhyme of humoristic, satirical, or ironic content.
		The tune of a chastushka was standardized, usually specific to a particular region of Russia.
	www.thefreeencyclopedia.com /definition/word.aspx?w=Chastushka (317 words)

	Welcome to The Florida Orchestra
		The Russian chastushka is a short, simple song for one, two or more singers with rhymed texts on an apparently limitless number of topics.
		Shchedrin explained, “In a chastushka there is always humor, irony and a sharp satire of the status quo, its defenders and the ‘leaders of the people.’ Even such powerful or dreaded names as Marx, Lenin and Stalin have been ridiculed in chastushki.
		[‘Chastushka’ is derived from the adjective chastïy: ‘quick.’] Brevity is the chief characteristic of the chastushka.
	floridaorchestra.org /index.php?pag=production&pgnote=116&e_id=176 (1772 words)

	Chekhov (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Chastushka is a short rhymed nonritual folk lyric which is usually sung to the accompaniment of a balalaika or accordion.
		Numerous chastushkas relate to subjects such as love, workers’ grievances before the revolution, recruitment of solders, as well as major political and historical events.
		The chastushka was a means of expression and therein lies the relevance.
	www.austincc.edu /lgrant/chekhov.htm (882 words)

	Folklore (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Chastushka appeared in the 19th century as a popular genre within folk music.
		It's still alive and the contents of it hasn't changed greatly, only politicians and presidents have become the most popular characters of it.
		It's hard or even impossible to translate chastushka into any other language.
	school.ort.spb.ru /library/vc98/music/folklore/folklore.htm (352 words)

	Chastushka
		The rigid, short structure (and, to a lesser degree, the type of humor these use) parallels limericks in British culture.
		Improvisation is highly valued during chastuska singing, much like in Rap culture.
		It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/ch/Chastushka.htm (346 words)

	Chastushka
		Find chastushka and more at Crossdots.com - an easy-to-use directory that helps you find exactly what you're looking for.
		If chastushka had a steady place as an element of the rite of reaping, it would be fixed under genre "Chastushka" and also in "Calendar rites and folklore"
		This is a lyrical song of suffering in the form of "chastushka" a series of four line folk verses.
	www.logicjungle.com /Chastushka.html (297 words)

	MHSchool: McGraw-Hill Music 2005
		Sometimes groups of singers follow the same general melodic line but add their own nuances, while at other times a melody might be accompanied by a descant.
		Chastushki, a genre of song, are purely for entertainment and use humor and satire to cover politics, love, and even communist propaganda.
		Much like free-style rap, a chastushka performer needs to be quick and able to improvise, since performances often involve “duels” between two or more people.
	www.mhschool.com /music/2005/teacher/teachingideas/folk/russian/index.html (832 words)

	Book Review
		The state propaganda machine also employed chastushka with varying success.
		In fact, chastushka made a startling comeback on television during the late eighties and early nineties, but its triumph was short-lived compared to the anecdote that conquered the Internet.
		Actually, the anecdote is the strongest genre of Russian oral culture that helped to communicate the most important means of resistance against the enormous power of the Soviet state: laughter.
	www.fph.suny.edu /book_review.htm (1812 words)

	Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin Biography - famous Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin Classical collection and Rodion ...
		His earliest compositions are characterized by elements that continue into his maturity.
		These elements include folk melodies from the former Soviet Union Republics, and the chastushka, a short form of "but mass songs that can be vulgar, clean, emotional, cynical and happy.
		This is an important element that would be found in Shchedrin’s more mature works, though his early works show signs of this folk influence, one example that shows the folk influence is the Piano Concerto No. 1, early written in 1954 and the ballet Konek-Gorbunok (‘The Little Hump-Backed Horse’).
	www.naxos.com /composerinfo/951.htm (219 words)

	iClassics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The chastushka is a satiric folk-song from Belarus and the Ukraine, danced as well as sung, sometimes accompanied by balalaika or folk accordion.
		Shchedrin explains: "In a chastushka there is always humor, irony and a sharp satire of the status quo, its defenders and the 'leaders of the people'.
		Even such powerful or dreaded names as Marx, Lenin and Stalin have been ridiculed in chastushki." Shchedrin has often referenced folk material in his concert music; chastushki appear in the finale of his First Piano Concerto.
	www.iclassics.com /featureArticle?contentId=312 (722 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - Arts + Features - the word's worth
		Russian jokes come in all varieties, from the частушка (chastushka, a four-line, rhyming verse), to the байка (a tall tale), to elaborate comic stories that lead inexorably to the punch line.
		******************* Russian jokes come in all varieties, from the chastushka (chastushka**, a four-line, rhyming verse), to the baika (a tall tale), to elaborate comic stories that lead inexorably to the punch line.
		Perhaps because russkie anekdoty (Russian jokes) come out of the storytelling tradition, rather than the vaudeville-Hollywood-sitcom tradition, there isn’t an exact Russian word for punch line.
	www.sptimes.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=1118 (926 words)

	MegaFon North-West :: Services :: services :: SMS entertainments
		merry folk chastushkas (ditties on topical, humorous or lyrical theme, sung in a lively manner);
		To obtain entertainment information a text "GSM-text" message (inquiry) shall be sent to number 00070 in which the subdivision and the defining words (if necessary) to specify the search area shall be indicated.
		chastushki – a merry chastushka (a new chastushka for each inquiry);
	www.megafonnw.ru /site/eng/services/services/sms_razvl.html (704 words)

	THE WORD'S WORTH: Try Your Hand Writing A Russian 'Chastushka'
		I consider it one of the duties of this column to make readers aware of any chance to turn their hard-won knowledge of Russian into fame and fortune.
		But before I tell you about the latest opportunity, I would like to introduce you to the chastushka.
		You might also be interested in our free E-mail News Summary, which delivers our entire edition every day straight to your inbox.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/1998/07/14/034.html (164 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Artist Bio
		Shchedrin received his early training from his musician father and continued at the Moscow Choral School and the Moscow Conservatory.
		He began composing during these school years, and it was also at this time that he developed the use of folktunes in his work, especially the chastushka, a Russian urban ditty.
		He went on to compose ballets in the style of Stravinsky and Prokofiev, an example of which is The Little Humpbacked Horse.
	music.barnesandnoble.com /search/artistbio.asp?CTR=7848 (188 words)

	NPQ
		It is the instigator of the constant reactionary attacks on the freedoms that have been won.
		All this is being done slowly, little by little, according to the principle of the old chastushka: “If you sink and stick to the bottom, stay there for two weeks, and then you’ll get used to it.” And we’ll probably stick there and get used to it, for it won’t be the first time.
		The most dangerous thing in the situation taking shape now is that the conductor’s baton directing the restorationist commotion is at the very top of power.
	www.digitalnpq.org /archive/2004_spring/yakovlev.html (1581 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - Arts + Features - the word's worth
		Russian jokes come in all varieties, from the частушка (chastushka, a four-line, rhyming verse), to the байка (a tall tale), to elaborate comic stories that lead inexorably to the punch line.
		******************* Russian jokes come in all varieties, from the chastushka (chastushka**, a four-line, rhyming verse), to the baika (a tall tale), to elaborate comic stories that lead inexorably to the punch line.
		Perhaps because russkie anekdoty (Russian jokes) come out of the storytelling tradition, rather than the vaudeville-Hollywood-sitcom tradition, there isn’t an exact Russian word for punch line.
	www.times.spb.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=1118 (926 words)

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