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Traditional Latvian music is often set to traditional poetry called ''dainas'', featuring pre-Christian themes and legends, drone vocal styles and Baltic zithers. ==Dainas== Traditional Latvian folklore, especially the dance of the folk songs, date back well over a thousand years. More than 1.2 million texts and 30,000 melodies of folk songs have been identified. Dainas are very short, usually only one or two stanzas, unrhymed and in a four-footed trochaic metre. Lyrically, dainas concern themselves with native mythology but, in contrast to most similar forms, do not have any legendary heroes. Stories often revolve around pre-Christian deities like the sun goddess Saule, the moon god Meness and, most notably, the life of people, especially its three most important events - birth, wedding and death (including burial). The first collection of dainas was published between 1894 and 1915 as ''Latvju Dainas'' by Krišjānis Barons. ''Latvju tautas mūzikas materiāli'', translated in English as the Materials of Latvian Folk Music is the anthology and commentary of Latvian folk. It analysed 5999 items of Latvian ethnography published in 6 editions from 1894 to 1926 by the Latvian musicologist and composer Andrejs Jurjāns (1856-1922). ''Latvju tautas mūzikas materiāli'' ''Sestā grāmata'' (the sixth book) was published posthumously in Riga, 1926. On page 1 ''latvju komponistu biedrības izdevums'' is inscribed, translated as the Latvian Society of Composers edition. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Music of Latvia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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