[78-L] Need Help to ID Language/Country

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Thanks for this great info!  I was able to find a web page on pre-revolutionary Russian records.  These labels are listed there with a brief description of the companies.  See it here:

http://russian-records.com/index.php

There are a ton of these early lables listed here.

The Metropole label was headquartered in Moscow and started in 1910.  The Stella label was a German company headquartered in Berlin with a factory in Warsaw, also.  

CDB

--- On Sun, 5/24/09, Donna Halper <dlh at donnahalper.com> wrote:

> From: Donna Halper <dlh at donnahalper.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Need Help to ID Language/Country
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Sunday, May 24, 2009, 10:01 AM
> And one of the songs, the one about
> "Dsihwoj' pee kundsina" comes up 
> in a search I did of scholarly music history journals--the
> Journal of 
> the Royal Music Association.  Evidently, the Latvian
> language 
> migrated away from Russian Cyrillic script when Latvia
> gained some 
> sort of autonomy in the 1860s or 70s (I'm not an expert on
> Baltic 
> history-- sorry), and the journal article says it further
> changed in 
> the 1920s.
> 
> Back to the title of one of the 78s. The essay I read about
> Latvian 
> music says the song "Dsihwoj' pee kundsina" is a
> traditional folk 
> song about a peasant (evidently under feudalism) who has a
> benevolent 
> master.  The journal article, "A Garland of Songs for
> a Nation of 
> Singers" by Kevin Karnes says nothing more about that
> particular 
> song-- the translation of the title is something like "I
> lived on a 
> nobleman's estate," and it was first collected by a
> folklorist in 
> 1872 or so.      
> 
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