Re: coceks sirtos and lungas

[Paul M. Gifford <PGIFFORD...>]

"Joshua Horowitz" <horowitz (at) styria(dot)com> wrote:
> 
> In spite of that, there seems to be a connection to the  Ottoman Lunga
> (called Sirto by Greeks). The globalization, i.e. watering down of "foreign"
> forms has been happening for a long time. 

I have read somewhere that the _longa_, a form in Turkish art music, 
came from Romania. I know little else about it, and the one or two 
recordings I have of a longa (one by Mohammed El Aqad) don't seem to 
have anything "Romanian" in them.  

But back to another possible Gypsy-Jewish dance connection that Helen 
raised: at the one Gypsy wedding in Bucharest I attended (that of the 
daughter of my friend Nicolae Feraru of Chicago), some men danced a 
solo dance while the women were dancing a circle hora (they were away 
from the women dancers). This was not a hora lautareasca. They 
stretched out their arms, bending to the sides and downward, with 
very little foot movement, which was not connected to the rhythm of 
the music. I also recall one or two women dancing this way, but it 
seemed to be mainly a men's dance. I'm not familiar with Hassidic 
dancing, but from pictures, etc. (or maybe I'm thinking of _Fiddler 
on the Roof_), some of it resembles this kind of dancing. Comments?

Paul Gifford


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