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	Gusle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gusle are most typically used to accompany the voice of a player (called a guslar) when telling and/or singing an epic story or legend, similar to the use of a guitar in the West.
		Guslars (singers) should be individuals capable of committing to memory long narrative texts about heroes and events from the distant past and to improvising new ones in the decasyllable metre (deseterac).
		The gusle has played an important role in the history of Serbian epic poetry because the guslar national singers passed on national poems in this way for centuries, until the poems were recorded in writing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gusle (446 words)

	DIDASKALIA: Ancient Theater Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		That is, the language employed by the guslar varies within limits: because it is the designated medium for a particular, highly marked activity, its spectrum is much narrower than, for example, the unmarked conversational standard.
		On the other hand, precisely because it is a language, and not a handy compositional kit of readymade building blocks, the guslar's performance style is subject to expectable avenues of differentiation one encounters with any language.
		But progress can be, and has been, made in recovering performance-based meanings, in learning the idiomatic languages in which the guslar and the aoidos compose and according to whose strictures the audience must participate in the linked process of reception.
	www.didaskalia.net /issues/vol3no3/foley.html (2591 words)

	ZBM Performance
		The guslar’s comments on his sources are instructive both in themselves and for the light they shed on how he conceives of the transmission of epic songs.
		Correspondingly, it is an essential part of the story that the singer describing the Guslar should never have actually met him personally; the master-bard is always a generation or two removed, or a couple of villages away, or currently traveling somewhere else.
		In effect, the Guslar is a way for individual singers to conceptualize the tradition at large, to tag what we conceive of as an abstraction – “the South Slavic oral epic tradition” – by idiomatic referral to an anthropomorphic figure.
	www.oraltradition.org /zbm/portrait (3709 words)

	SBL2000 - Thatcher
		A guslar is a slavic folk-singer who performs traditional oral epics to the accompaniment of a guitar-type instrument called the gusle.
		What they would do generally would be to record an oral story and then interview the guslar and ask him a bunch of questions about his background, including where he got that particular story, i.e., what was his source.
		For example, Parry asks a particular guslar, "Where did you learn this story?", and the guy might say that he heard it from his uncle, but the uncle learned it from the great singer.
	catholic-resources.org /John/SBL2000-Thatcher1.html (2405 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Examples are the Bosnian guslars, Welsh bards, Iroquois Keepers, Egyptian shaeri, West African griots, Anglo-Saxon and Norse scops, and a hundred others; the Homeric rhapsodes ("song-stitchers") of Greece were one such caste.
		The fate of the Bosnian guslars is an example of both dangers: when Turkish rule was withdrawn from Bosnia in the early 20th century, the Muslim elite who had patronised the epic poets faded away, along with the court environment in which a guslar had been indispensible.
		Like the guslars, the ancient Greek rhapsodes faded from the scene when faced with the double threat of the dispersion of Greek population and wealth across the Mediterranean following Alexander's conquests, on the one hand, and the rise of the papyrus roll as the authoritative medium of Homeric verse on the other.
	www.stanford.edu /~jackm/epic.htm (1119 words)

	Property in Guslar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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	investment-property.around-bulgaria.com /sela-dobrich/guslar.html (105 words)

	Winlow. Our Servian Cousin. Chapter 5. The Guslar.
		There were loud and repeated expressions of pleasure at this unexpected arrival, for the Guslar was no stranger to the members of this settlement.
		He was of an interesting appearance, tall and broad-shouldered, his hair perfectly white.
		As the last line was said all arose and expressed their hearty thanks, one or two almost reverently kissing the old Guslar's hands, and then all separated for the night, Dushan and Yovan to whisper long of the heroes of old, whom they desired above all things to emulate.
	www.kellscraft.com /Servian05.html (942 words)

	OFComposition
		1) When the guslar refers to the "song" he apparently means the broad plot.
		2) The guslar does not memorize the poems.
		Theme and Scene (these are not identical in the original theory, but we need not be concerned with the distinction): Basic building blocks (council; arming; welcoming a traveller; the view from the wall) by which the story can be developed and advanced.
	www.unlv.edu /Faculty/jmstitt/Eng446/ofcomposition.html (273 words)

	* Guide-Bulgaria * - Latitude, Longitudes and Altitude of Village of Guslar, Municipality Tervel, District Dobrich, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		* Guide-Bulgaria * - Latitude, Longitudes and Altitude of Village of Guslar, Municipality Tervel, District Dobrich, North-East Bulgaria
		Village of Guslar - Latitude: 43.833N, Longitude: 27.45E, Altitude: from 100m to 199m above sea level
		Area sizes in square kilometers Village of Guslar
	www.guide-bulgaria.com /NE/Dobrich/Tervel/Guslar/Locations.aspx (596 words)

	Mostar Sevdah Reunion / RootsWorld Recording Review
		The most famous music from an Islamic tradition within the former Yugoslavia may be the oral poetry of the guslar, which Albert B. Lord in his "Singer of Tales" argued came from a way of preserving memories prior to writing.
		The music was quite loosely structured around the song; this still shows itself in the contemporary sevdah, which is most often a group effort, with the main accompanying instrument being the accordion.
		Unlike the guslar with his epic poems, the sevdah is based on lyrical songs.
	www.rootsworld.com /reviews/mostar.shtml (522 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Jakov Gotovac and Marko Tajcevic, Croation composers whose lives spanned roughly the same period (1895-1984), wrote music in a wan, Romantic nationalist style that so many other composers (pick a name, any name) have done better.
		The best of Gotovac is the first piece on the disc, Symphonic Kolo, which also has a certain unpretentious tunefulness.
		The two symphonic poems, The Ploughers and Guslar the Fiddler, aren't terribly long (13 and 11 minutes respectively) but seem interminably drab and lacking in direction.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=4726 (210 words)

	Balkan Repository Project - 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The singers were called guslars and they played a one-stringed instrument called a gusle.
		The American poet Charles Simic was born in Serbia and heard a guslar perform when he was a child.
		There's nothing to do but pay close attention to the words which the guslar enunciates with great emphasis and clarity.
	www.balkan-archive.org.yu /kosovo_crisis/Jul_26/4.html (708 words)

	GOTOVAC
		The current (and possibly last) Schwann/Opus has no listings for Gotovac, so this fine cpo issue is welcome if only for the opportunity to hear more of his music.
		The CD booklet heading calls all five works "Symphonic Poems," which surely isn't correct although obviously the two longest works (Oraci - The Ploughers and Guslar the Fiddler) fit that description.
		The former, also called a "symphonic meditation," describes a day in the life of plowmen; the latter is a musical depiction of a blind itinerant singer who accompanies himself on a folk instrument called the gusle.
	classicalcdreview.com /goto.htm (437 words)

	Thy Rodney and Thy Staff, They Comfort Me
		Ford noticed it when he'd been following the trail to the temple where the leaders of Guslar did their negotiating.
		She'd told them in the briefing that the Guslar were probably more likely to respond negotiate with Major Sheppard than to herself, because their society valued men more than women.
		Nagged at him because ever since the Athosians had left, he'd started feeling the alienness of the city.
	www.paper-hearted.org /prose/thyrodney.html (2358 words)

	Dalmatia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A native minstrel ("Guslar" in Croatian) playing a local one-string instrument "gusle" and singing/reciting epic songs about the heroic exploits of various brave people.
		Photo probably taken somewhere along the Riva of Kotor.
		"Guslars" were ubiquitous entertainers throughout the mountainous region of western Balkan (Dinaride mountain chain) in the past, and some can be seen even today.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /hectorhouse/page12.html (57 words)

	Serbo-Croatian
		According to the source, "The Battle of Kosovo is generally considered the finest work of Serbian folk poetry." In addition to the somewhat scarce nature of available literary works of this genre, The Battle of Kosovo is an excellent example of Serbian poetry.
		The preface written by Charles Simic is an informative first hand account which includes his own experience with a guslar and one modernist description of the guslar that says "the sound of gusle is the sound of defeat."
		The Performance of Homeric Epic focuses on the "Performance Style" and "Performance and Reception" of oral poetry, in this case, Homer and South Slavic Epic.
	www.uweb.ucsb.edu /~g1bogey/EngWeblinks.html (533 words)

	Digital Camera Resource Page - Forums - Monument Thread
		04-22-2005 07:44 AM It's Filip Visnjic (1767-1834), a blind guslar* (what Homer is to ancient Greeks, that Filip Visnjic is to Serbian people).
		The whole monument was made by Djordje Jovanovic in 1904 and is located in Krusevac, Serbia.
		It's Filip Visnjic (1767-1834), a blind guslar* (what Homer is to ancient Greeks, that Filip Visnjic is to Serbian people).
	www.dcresource.com /forums/printthread.php?t=7290 (659 words)

	Projekat Rastko: The Battle of Kosovo (Serbian Epic Poems)
		Filip Visnjic, Karadzic's most famous singer, actually personifies this last popularly stereotypical image of the guslar, while Tesan Podrugovic, who prefered to speak rather than to sing his poems, was indeed an outlaw driven into the woods for killing a Turk.
		Idled by the time on their hands they started to sing and sang themselves hoarse in endless poems accompanied by the mourning sounds of the sobbing gusle.
		The blind guslars gazed into the future, and those who could see covered themselves out of shame and became the leaders of the blind But what kind of music is this, my poor soul, reduced to just one string!"
	www.rastko.org.yu /knjizevnost/usmena/battle_of_kosovo.html (11867 words)

	Ongoing Projects @ CeR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is maintained collaboratively by the Center for eResearch and a host of other contributors from campus and beyond.
		The Guslar Project, in its simplest form, is an experiment in experiencing an oral text online.
		Its prototype has explored different visual layouts and navigation schemes for navigating multiple parts of the text/audio/etc. The next steps include developing guidelines for marking up any oral text and opening it up for others to participate.
	www.e-researchcenter.org /pages/f2005_stephens (299 words)

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