Barbara Majnarić

Barbara Majnarić is a Croatian singer and researcher of traditional music. Through the years, she has been singing in various singing groups and expanding her knowledge of traditional singing from various sources, including vocal pedagogies, contemporary singers of traditional music, and indigenous traditional singers. She is active in researching traditional music through audio archives and fieldwork, recording authentic singers, and gathering songs from the Dinaric area of Croatia. Currently, her main interest is the older layer of traditional songs of the Balkans, their specific vocal qualities and acoustic characteristics, much of them being untempered or in undefinable scales. Through active listening and singing, she is trying to spot connections between body and sound, sound and landscape. She is also active in developing and organizing projects whose goals are education, documentation, and the popularization of traditional music in Croatia