Baian

Quick meaning: Baian is a noun meaning Alternative form of bayan (“type of accordion”).

Meaning

Alternative form of bayan (“type of accordion”).

Example Sentences

¹ Double-bass, harp, flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, trumpet, percussion instrument, baian, dombra, balalaika, guitar and other folk instruments, accordion.

Four accordion-like baians lent a folksy quality to the opening of “Ennui and Sadness” (after Mikhail Lermontov), but their participation was brief, and it was left to the choristers to bare their souls with angry whoops of loveless despair.

Her repertoire consists of Russian folk songs, usually accompanied by a grand orchestra dominated by folk instruments such as the balalaika and the baian, as well as pathos-filled songs by Soviet composers, expressing love for the motherland and its nature and people.

Cushman found “an emergent sense of nationalistic pride” and an increasing interest in experimenting with traditional musical themes and instruments (such as the balalaika and baian) within the rock genre among St. Petersburg rock musicians from the early 1990s, (Cushman 1995: 315).

Word Forms

• baians

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