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Old Regilaul-Song (Runo Song)
Regilaul-song is the most archaic poetic and
musical heritage of the Estonians - a historical way of singing among
the peoples at the Gulf of Finland. A poetic line
regivärss and its tune
regiviis form a unique world of
regilaul,
which once used to be the prevalent singing style in earlier history.
Scholars consider this poetic form to date back a few thousand years
while some texts are believed to originate from the beginning of the
last millennium, based on their content. In this original poetic and
musical language people created songs that embraced the whole lifespan
and mental worldview of Estonian peasants, accompanying them from cradle
to grave.
Regilaul-song
defined or complimented the
ritual activities of an individual and of the whole village community;
singing formed an important component in the working process, in leisure
time, and during all kinds of festivities. Singing was a mode of
expression that deviated from regular speech but was at the same time
familiar and comprehensible to all members of the community. In order to
express their feelings and ideas, singers of
regilaul applied a
special lingua or poetic code, which deviated from the ordinary forms
of speech used in daily communication. People believed that songs and
singing carried extraordinary power that was lacking in regular speech,
while the songs reflected the actual world in a figurative way. Men and
women related to the surrounding world by composing words in poetic
metre, set to a melody that added depth and meaning, because they
believed that songs had power to affect everything: people and their
work, the surrounding nature and the netherworld.
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