THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE INSTRUMENTAL DOINA “DRAGOSTEA CA PE TESLUI” IN THE LAST 80 YEARS. PART III – ANALYSIS OF THE SONG “DRAGOSTEA CA PE TESLUI”– VIOLINIST MITEL DRĂGULIN’S VERSION

Abstract

This article discusses the latest version of the instrumental love doina “Ca pe Teslui”. The text below continues the series of analyses started in previous issues of the RevArt magazine, and represents the penultimate part of the four-paper “collage”. They follow, as the title says, the diachronic path of the instrumental doina “Dragostea ca pe Teslui” by comparing three of its versions. This paper analyses violinist Mitel Drăgulin’s version, successor of the fiddlers Ilie and Gică Chirea. At the end of the four articles, general conclusions will be drawn about variation and the various avatars of the instrumental love doina “Dragostea ca pe Teslui” over a period of about 80 years.