Crossword clues for balalaika
balalaika
- Instrument with three strings and a triangular body
- Instrument from a laboratory upset first cosmonaut?
- Instrument dog found under lake
- Three-stringed instrument used to play Russian folk music
- Instrument for "Lara's Theme"
- Triangular-bodied, three-stringed instrument
- Triangular-bodied instrument
- Russian instrument with a triangular body
- Accompaniment for the "Volga Boatman."
- Russian relative of a guitar
- Instrument with a three-sided body
- A stringed instrument that has triangular body and three strings
- Music maker beginning to bark in the style of a dog who was out of this world
- On the way up a dog enthusiast overheard musical instrument
- Russian triangular musical instrument
- Russian musical instrument
- It's played first of all in dance at a milk bar regularly
- It needs pluck to play in triangular formation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
balalaika \balalaika\ n. [Russian.] a stringed instrument of Russian origin that has a triangular body and three strings.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stringed instrument with a triangular body, 1788, from Russian balalaika, said to be related to balabolit' "to chatter, babble," an imitative word.
Wiktionary
n. (context musical instruments English) A Russian musical instrument, similar to a guitar, with a triangular body.
WordNet
n. a stringed instrument that has triangular body and three strings
Wikipedia
The balalaika (, ) is a Russian stringed musical instrument with a characteristic triangular body and three strings.
The balalaika family of instruments includes instruments of various sizes, from the highest-pitched to the lowest: the piccolo balalaika, prima balalaika, secunda balalaika, alto balalaika, bass balalaika, and contrabass balalaika. The prima balalaika is the most common; the piccolo is rare. There have also been descant and tenor balalaikas, but these are considered obsolete. All have three-sided bodies; spruce, evergreen, or fir tops; and backs made of three to nine wooden sections (usually maple). They are typically strung with three strings, and the necks are fretted.
The prima balalaika, secunda and alto are played either with the fingers or a plectrum (pick), depending on the music being played, and the bass and contrabass (equipped with extension legs that rest on the floor) are played with leather plectra. The rare piccolo instrument is usually played with a pick.
is the second solo single of Morning Musume and Hello! Project member Koharu Kusumi, under the name of . Tsukishima is a character in the anime series Kirarin Revolution that Kusumi is the voice of, and "Balalaika" is also used as the second opening theme song of the series. The second track on the single is "Mizuiro Melody". The limited first press edition of the single contains a special Kirarin Revolution card.
The title song was used as the second opening theme to the anime television series Kirarin Revolution (from October 2006 года, namely in episodes 27 to 51).
The CD single debuted at number 8 in the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart and spend there 23 weeks in total.
The Single V version of "Balalaika" was released on 8 November 2006, two weeks after the CD single's release.
A balalaika is a stringed musical instrument of Slavic origin.
Balalaika may also refer to:
- An unofficial nickname for the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Russian fighter jet, from its planform shape
- Balalaika (musical), 1936 musical play with words and lyrics by Eric Maschwitz
- Balalaika (film), a 1939 MGM musical romance film based on the 1936 musical play
- Balalayka (film), a 2000 Turkish drama directed by Ali Özgentürk and written by Işıl Özgentürk
- "Balalaika", Ilanit's song for Eurovision 1984 (withdrawn)
- "Balalaika" (song), Koharu Kusumi's second solo single
- Balalaika, a character in the Japanese manga and anime Black Lagoon
- " Balleilakka", a song from Sivaji composed by A. R. Rahman
- "Balle Lakka", a song from Mankatha composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja
- Rest. Balalaika, "La Posada del Viajante", Restaurant located in Corozal, Puerto Rico Especialidad en Hamburger, Sandwiches, Comidas Criollas y a la Sartén Carr. 159 Km. 16.0
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Balalaika is a 1939 American musical romance film based on the 1936 London stage musical of the same name. Produced by Lawrence Weingarten and directed by Reinhold Schunzel, it starred Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey.
The film follows the romance of Prince Peter Karagin and Lydia Pavlovna Marakova, a singer and secret revolutionary, in Imperial Russia on the eve of World War I.
Balalaika is a musical play in three acts with book and lyrics by Eric Maschwitz, music by George Posford and Bernard Grun. It opened in London at the Adelphi Theatre on 22 December 1936, starring Muriel Angelus, Roger Treville, Clifford Mollison and Betty Warren, and ran for 569 performances.
A love story between a young nobleman and a ballerina set mostly in Russia during World War I and the Russian Revolution, it begins and ends in 1924 at a Montmartre night-club called the "Balalaika", telling the lovers' story through a series of flashbacks.
Itself a revised version of an earlier London musical play called The Great Hussar, which opened at the Adelphi Theatre on 19 October 1933, Balalaika formed the basis for the 1939 MGM movie of the same name starring Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey.
Usage examples of "balalaika".
Once, watching him as he slept, she played the balalaika tape for herself alone, but only once.
As fragile, she thought, as the lacy balalaika music trapped in its metal box.
Pain, balalaika, souls, curses-she looked away, anywhere away, out the little window to where the stars called from the PitCrawling under the horizon was the bright-yellow ELM.
Madame Karitska handed him her library card, her social security card, and her card of membership in the Balalaika Society.
Ships docked to load up our national products, goods transported from Stalingrad, Stalinsk, Stalino, Stalinbad, Stalinir, Stalinkan, and Stalinovo, goods to be sent forth to a waiting world: caviar and sables, vodka and papirosi, heroin and hashish, plutonium and red mercury, balalaikas, matryoshkas, lapel pins, rayon banners, platinum busts of our leaders, and coypu.
Romanov, the tsarevitch, son of the last Romanov ruler of Russia, fourteen years old, described over and over again as a physically fragile hemophiliac, had been learning to play the balalaika.
Mead and qvass flowed in the very streets, and the castle trumpets could not be heard for the sound of troikas and balalaikas.
All were titled and balalaikas were played at the drop of a blini and Mary Pickford invariably wept as she listened to yet another lament for the far-off river Don, and serfs aplay.
A band made up of balalaikas and Spanish guitars and Andean flutes and Mongol drums was splitting the air.
All the troupers had heard it played on balalaikas in restaurants and hotel dining rooms, and Boom-Boom Beck was scoring a version for his windjammers to play.
But I do know that when a naval officer spends more time wishing he was in Leningrad at the Hermitage or listening to a group of women play their balalaikas and sing peasant songs, then maybe he should think about changing his job.
And to top things off, he was a skilled musician, despite the loss of two fingers, who could play the bawdiest tune a seaman could name or spend hours staring into a lamp flame while he stroked soft, haunting beauty from his balalaika.
It took a bit more effort on Brandark's part—his balalaika and dandified air made him less elementally threatening—but after the night four burly longshoremen took flight through a second-story window, their fellows decided to leave him alone, too.
They were a three-piece outfit with a tall guy with brown curly hair playing flute, a short, dark, long-haired fellow swapping between six- and twelve-string guitars, and a big guy with muttonchop sideburns playing six-string guitar, acoustic bass guitar, and balalaika.