Re: Sirba

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

Helen Winkler" <winklerh (at) hotmail(dot)com> wrote:

>Just got word back from my Romanian dancing friend that she has never 
>come across a documented dance connection between Serbians and the 
>Romanian dance "sirba."  She has posed this same question to the 
>various Romanian dance instructors from Romania that she has worked 
>with and none of them are aware of a connection.

Of course I meant that the word came from Serbia, or rather that the 
word indicated a Serb origin, not that the dance came from that 
region.  In the 16th century in Moldavia and Galicia, musicians played
what they called a "Serb" fiddle (_serbska_) at dances and banquets. 
Who knows? Maybe the name of the dance could have come from the 
instrument (which was none other than the Byzantine lira).

Paul Gifford

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