Music of Serbia - Traditional Music

Traditional Music

Traditional Serbian music include various kinds of bagpipes, flutes, horns, trumpets, lutes, psalteries, drums and cymbals such as:

  • Frula (woodwind)
  • Diple (dvojanka, woodwind)
  • Gajde (bagpipe)
  • Zurna (woodwind)
  • Duduk (woodwind)
  • Tambura (lute)
  • Tamburitza (lute)
  • Gusle (lute)
  • Kaval (šupeljka, lute)
  • Davul (tapan, goč, drum)
  • Bouzouki (šargija, lute)
  • Tarambuke (drum)

The genre encompasses both vocal and non-vocal (instrumental).

Balkanika, Balkanopolis, Dvig, Slobodan Trkulja, Belo Platno, Teodulija, Kulin Ban are known Serbian musical groups that use traditional Balkan musical instruments and perform traditional songs and songs based on traditional music elements.

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