Music of Russia

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music genre

overview of musical traditions in Russia

Russian choir

Russian Marxist and revolutionary funeral march

280px|thumbnail|Rayok. 19th century A rayok (, "small paradise") was a Russian fairground peep show. Performed using a box with pictures viewed through magnifying lenses, these were accompanied by lewd rhymed jokes. The Fall of Adam and Eve was one of the most popular topics. The term rayok has also come to be applied to rhymed humorous talk shows, without peeping, featuring a kind of rhymed prose. The expression "to talk rayok", говорить райком, thus means to speak in a rhymed, humorous way, to patter. Rayok, in both its peep show and talk show forms, has been an occupation of wandering artis

music genre; singing style

children's choir in Moscow, Russia

music within Sami culture

thumb|"Gypsy dance", Fedor Solntsev, 1830 Tsyganochka (, "Gypsy Girl") is a Russian folk dance stylized under the Russian Roma tunes. The music is in minor tonality, unusual in Russian folk dance, in time signature.

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