Slovak Folk Music

Folk music is big treasure of our culture and source of inspiration till now days. You can find so many variations of topics, rhythms and melodies, that we cannot write about Slovak folk music generally.
Although Slovakia is small country, there are lot of regions with absolutely different access to music from their neighbours. For example: Mining songs from from the mining towns in the central Slovakia are influenced by European music while 20 km further was played rhythmical dance folk music with typical Slovak elements.

Common folk music band consist of first violin, second violin (contra), bass and cymbal. There are no cymbal in the poorer regions. Our national music instrument is fujara - long (1,7m) wooden pipe with strong sound. Only men can play it. It was typical instrument in the shepherd´s regions were it sound spreads above hills beautifully. The player was also the singer. He uses to play short variation on fujara and then sings a part of song. They were slow ballades about men´s disaster among the woods.

The most popular folk music is from central Slovakia, from around the river Hron. This music is very fast and melodiously. Also gipsy music has stable position among favorite dance music.

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