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Love
for the ancient Finnish music culture has made the
MeNaiset members both as a group and as individuals to
get acquainted with and to bring to light the Kalevala
rune world. The MeNaiset repertoire includes both lyric
and epic folk poems. The importance of Kalevala runes and
the Kalevala music aesthetics can be seen in the fact
that MeNaiset uses them constantly in creating their new
repertoire. More recent Finnish folk music tradition with
its roundelays, polskas and hymns, have also been brought
up by MeNaiset in their new arrangements. Throughout
their history of singing together the MeNaiset members
have either alone or together made arrangements for the
ensemble. As time has passed, and new repertoires have
become a necessity, the amount of compositions has grown,
and it has also become important for the singers to find
new musical directions. In the more recent arrangements
influence of other music cultures can be heard. Apart
from individual composing, carried out by all members of
the group, MeNaiset also composes together by improvising
and includes improvisation |
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