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	Amazon.com: Croatia: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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		Songs and Dances from Croatia (Across the Drava River) by Zagreb Folk Dance Ensemble (Audio CD - 2000) - Import
		Croatia: Music of Long Ago by Various Artists (Audio CD - 1997) - Import
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Croatia&index=music&page=1 (181 words)

	International Music Education Policy Symposium: Fact Sheet for Croatia
		One of the aims of music education is to broaden children's knowledge of musical traditions and to enable them to use music in different everyday situations such as holidays and family gatherings.
		Music education in the primary school aims at extending children's musical memory and at developing their intellectual and motor skills.
		Music in primary education aims to help children develop their abilities of expression in voice and in the use of an instrument.
	www.menc.org /connect/conf/imeps/symposium_fs_croatia.html (718 words)

	Music of Croatia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The music of Croatia, like the country itself, has three major influences: the influence of the Mediterranean especially present in the coastal areas, of the Balkans especially in the mountainous, continental parts, and of central Europe in the central and northern parts of the country.
		The folk music of Zagorje, an area north of Zagreb, is known for polka and waltz music similar to the neighboring Slovenia and Austria.
		Croatian pop music is fairly often listened to in Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia and Montenegro due to the union of Yugoslavia that existed until the 1990s.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/mu/music_of_croatia.html (1710 words)

	Music of Croatia
		The music of Croatia, like the country itself, has three major influences: the influence of the Mediterranean especially present in the coastal areas, of the Balkans especially in the mountainous, continental parts, and of central Europe in the central and northern parts of the country.
		The folk music of Zagorje, an area north of Zagreb, is known for polka and waltz music similar to the neighboring Slovenia and Austria.
		Croatian pop music is fairly often listened to in Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia and Montenegro due to the union of Yugoslavia that existed until the 1990s.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/m/mu/music_of_croatia.html (1179 words)

	Music of Croatia - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		The music of Croatia, like the country itself, has three major influences: the influence of the Mediterranean especially present in the coastal areas, of the Balkans especially in the mountainous, continental parts, and of central Europe in the central and northern parts of the country.
		The folk music of Zagorje, an area north of Zagreb, is known for polka and waltz music similar to the neighboring Slovenia and Austria.
		Croatian pop music is fairly often listened to in Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia and Montenegro due to the union of Yugoslavia that existed until the 1990s.
	www.music.us /education/M/Music-of-Croatia.htm (1407 words)

	Motor yachts, sailing boats, megayachts in Yacht charter Croatia
		Croatia is a modern country with a combination of a soft continental climate and a Mediterranean climate.
		Croatia stretches from the foot of the Alps in the northwest and Pannonian Plain in the east, over the mountain range of Dinara in its central region, to the Adriatic coast in the south.
		Croatia has a strange shape, which comes as a result of five centuries of expansion by the Ottoman (Turkish) empire towards Central Europe (although Croatia was never conquered by the Turks).
	www.croatiacharter.com /about_croatia.asp (1104 words)

	Croatia: National Geographic World Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A crescent-shaped country in southeast Europe, Croatia extends from the fertile plains of the Danube to the mountainous coast of the Adriatic Sea.
		Croatia is rich in folkloric music, including a well-known polyphonic choral tradition.
		The tamburica is a lute-like instrument similar to the turkish saz and is the national instrument of Croatia.
	plasma.nationalgeographic.com /worldmusic/view/page.basic/country/content.country/croatia_869 (252 words)

	Music of Croatia
		The music of Croatia is mostly associated with tamburitza[?], a form of folk music that revolves around the tambura[?].
		Tamburitza became increasingly popular in the 1800s, and small bands began to form, paralleling similar developments in Russia, Italy and the Ukraine.
		Some fans of tamburitza claim that the tambura is the most commonly used ethnic instrument moved to the United States from a foreign country.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mu/Music_of_Croatia.html (85 words)

	Culture of Croatia:
		The culture of Croatia has roots in a long history: the Croats have been inhabiting the area for thirteen centuries, but there are important remnants of the earlier periods still preserved in the country.
		The early middle ages brought the great migration of the Slavs and this period was perhaps a Dark Age in the cultural sense until the successful formation of the Slavic states which coexisted with Italic cities that remained on the coast, each of them were modelled like Venice.
		By joining the Hungarian state in the twelfth century, Croatia lost its independence, but it didn't lose its ties with the south and the west, and instead this ensured the beginning of a new era of Central European cultural influence.
	www.winelib.com /wiki/Culture_of_Croatia (989 words)

	wais:croatia: music January 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		George Sassoon forwards this: The "music" of which your friend speaks comes from remote western Hercegovina, and is known to the Croats as GANGA.
		Obviously, to like ganga music is the "in thing" to do.According to Dr. Andjelko Mijatovic, the name derives from the English word "gang" and came via Trieste.
		Mijatovic was an adviser to the late Tudjman, president of Croatia.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/ztopics/week010105/croatia_050101_music.htm (378 words)

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	Folk Music of Croatia
		The music of Croatia, like the country itself, has three major influences: the influence of the Mediterranean especially present in the coastal areas, of the Balkans especially in the mountainous, continental parts, and of central Europe in the central and northern parts of the country.
		Tamburitza music, a form of folk music that revolves around the tambura is primarily associated with the northern part of the country while the gusle music became mostly popular in southern (Dinaric) region of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
		The folk music of Zagorje, an area north of Zagreb, is known for polka and waltz music similar to the neighbouring Slovenia and Austria.
	www.humanitiesweb.org /human.php?s=c&p=a&a=i&ID=1646 (526 words)

	About Croatia - Singers, Bands and Music
		Croatia has a large music industry and a large variety of singers and music, ranging from traditional music to rock to rap to modern.
		Croatia Records is the main and largest music recording studio in Croatia and have the majority of singers recording under their label.
		Oliver Dragojevic has a long history in the Croatian music industry his first album was released in 1975.
	www.about-croatia.com /croatia-singers.php (158 words)

	culturenet.hr - Panorama - Music - Folklore
		From the 19th century folk music began to be exploited as a means of promoting national and political ideas, initiating thus the concept of rooting national music in folkloric elements.
		From the end of the 19th century fiddle ensembles (guci, muzikaši), in the northern regions of Croatia joined by the dulcimer, were the most frequent instrumental groups, while in the 20th century these groups were supplemented by tambouritzas and chromatic accordion or else completely substituted by tambouritza players.
		During the second half of the 19th century, under the influence of musical activities in National Revival period, multi-part singing of chordal (harmonic) structure in major mode developed and was performed by smaller groups of male singers (klapa singers).
	www.culturenet.hr /v1/english/panorama.asp?a=1&id=29 (1103 words)

	Music of Croatia
		The traditional music of Croatia is mostly associated with a capella singing, known as klapa, the tamburitza and to a small extent gusle songs.
		Main elements of the music are harmony and melody, with rythm very rarely being very important.
		Although klapa is a capella music, on occassion it is possible to add a gentle guitar and a mandolin.
	www.siql.com /celebrities/article.Music_of_Croatia.htm (1204 words)

	Croatia
		Croatia (in Croatian: Hrvatska) is a country of the Balkan Peninsula.
		In 1918, Austria-Hungary disintegrated after being on the losing side in WW1.
		Following World War II, Yugoslavia became an independent communist state under the strong hand of Marshal Tito.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/cr/Croatia.html (138 words)

	World Music Central - Festival Ethnoambient Salona 2004, Croatia, Invites Mediterranean Musicians
		Zagreb, Croatia - The 2004 edition of Ethnoambient Salona will focus on the Mediterranean and the organizers would like to invite all those musicians from the Mediterranean who didn't have a chance to perform in the past and whose work is based on the tradition of their own culture.
		Ethnoambient Salona is the oldest world music festival in Croatia and tends to promote different cultures through fusion of the traditional and contemporary music.
		Music is the main focus, but visitors also get a chance to explore the fair of organic/eco farming & traditional crafts and souvenirs and also to enjoy the natural beauty of the area - the rivers, the mountains, the Adriatic sea and beautiful Mediterranean atmosphere.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php/20031103181937453 (252 words)

	Central Europe Review - Music: Croatia's continuing traditions
		In Croatia, Zagreb is the hub for professional music-making.
		The ensemble maintains a very proactive role in the renaissance of the 18th-century Croatian musical heritage (composers such as Ivan Mare Jarnović and Luka Sorkočević) as well as serving as a model for the resurgence of conductorless chamber orchestras in the late 20th century.
		To conclude these remarks on music and musical life in Croatia since 1991, it is obvious that the country possesses a very active musical culture.
	www.ce-review.org /00/19/everett19.html (3357 words)

	Croatian Cultural Society of Omaha Homepage-Croatian Music
		There were many `ages' of Croatian music and this is an effort to shed some light on these.
		The earliest mention of glagolitic singing in Croatia is from the year 1777, when Pope Alexandre III visited the town of Zadar.
		In music probably the most original contribution is the tamburitza, the Croatian national string instrument and one of the hallmarks of Croatia.
	www.omahaculturefest.org /croatia/croatmusic.html (463 words)

	Culture of Croatia . Lavoslav Ruzicka . Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts . Krapina-Zagorje county . Zadar
		The institution was founded in Zagreb then mostly known as Agram, in German language German in 1867 as the Yugoslavia Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts.
		The Krapina-Zagorje county is a candidate for being the most idyllic county in Croatia: the many villages and small towns spread out across the hillsides are perfect for agriculture...
		A annalist from the year 1177 noted that the joyous people of Zadar accompanying Pope Alexander III on his way to the basilica sang songs of praise in their native Slavic...
	www.uk.kunsimuna.net /Culture_of_Croatia_UK_973799_zh (290 words)

	From Croatia: free music lives \| Tactical Technology Collective
		Specially because electronic music is probably the most connected of all genres of music to digital information.
		The Republic of Croatia is in Europe and borders the Mediterranean, Central Europe and the Balkans.
		Croatia is situated between central, southern and eastern Europe, because it has a rather peculiar shape that resembles a crescent or a horseshoe.
	www.tacticaltech.org /node/235 (1390 words)

	Folk Music Week at Pinewoods 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Caller Becky Hill is known for her skill at calling exciting dances for all levels of dancers and she is the author of some of the best new contra dances written.
		Music for dancing will be provided by Wild Goose Nation, Craig Edwards, Dirck Westervelt, and Mike Fischman.
		Craig is a member of the Mystic Seaport shanty crew and has a deep interest in traditional American instrumental music and song and in exploring social and cultural history through music.
	www.cdss.org /programs/2002/pw-folk-music.html (1463 words)

	Jami Sieber: enchanting cello compositions
		She is a celebrated pioneer of her instrument and received the Northwest Area Music Association (NAMA) Award for Best Rock Instrumentalist, no easy feat for a cellist.
		She has guest artist in a variety of musical settings that have taken her to China, Russia, Croatia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Italy, France and most recently to Thailand where while working on a film score she had the most enriching experience of improvising with the Elephant Orchestra outside of Lampang.
		Each of these recordings is a sonic journey exploring the breadth and magic of the acoustic and electric cellos, with compositions that are engaging and full of lush imagery.
	www.magnatune.com /artists/sieber (588 words)

	Turn of the Tide in Croatia - Music - British Council - Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The project was specifically targeted at children in ordinary schools, as specialist music schools are already well developed in Croatia.
		In collaboration with the Croatian Ministry of Education, Richard Frostick and British Council Croatia organised the Music for All Education Project, a series of workshops for children aged 8-, 11- and 13-years-old.
		The final concert was magnificent, with 300 children singing in the choir and 100 children playing the music they had composed with the Symphony Orchestra of Croatian Radio and Television.
	www.britishcouncil.org /arts-performing-arts-workshops-turn-of-the-tide-croatia.htm (323 words)

	The Tamburitza and the preservation of Croatian folk music
		For Croatians living outside of Croatia, the tamburitza was a cultural symbol binding them to their homeland.
		Before discussing folk music in Croatia, it is important to deal with the term ethnomusicology, and its development.
		This term is used to describe the division of musicology in which emphasis is given to the study of music in its cultural context.
	www.croatianhistory.net /etf/folk.html (942 words)

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