Aliide Kaasik
Aliide Kaasik. Photo: I. Rüütel 1961. ERA, Foto 5907.
Then came former Sõru inhabitant Aliide Kaasik. According to her, her life had been very hard – she is a mother of eight children, her husband became an invalid and one of the daughter was born a cripple. When young, she had not done much singing or playing with others. It was only later, when she lived in Kärla, that she learned some songs and games. She also sang to us several songs she had heard from her mother and while living in Kärla and Kõiguste. (From the field work diary of I. Rüütel, June 3, 1961; Rüütel 2015: 172)
M. Tuus was conspicuous /---/ by a rare sense of humour. /---/ Here, in this nook, the people were more modest, but the inhabitants of Sõru were much more fun and they also indulged in bad habits. A. Kaasik, however, left a pleasant impression. What's more, she had a good singing voice, which we recorded on tape. (From the field work diary of I. Rüütel, June 3, 1961; Rüütel 2015: 172)
Songs:
Aliide Kaasik, aged 55, Kõiguste village [Pöide parish], comes from Sõrve, has also lived in Kaarma parish. Recorded by O. Kõiva, I. Rüütel in 1961.
Publication
Introduction to publication
Performers
Performers by village
Asva village (Pöide)
Audla village (Pöide)
Haeska village (Valjala)
Kalma village (Pöide)
Kiriku village (Valjala)
Kungla village (Valjala)
Kõiguste village (Pöide)
Kõnnu village (Valjala)
Liiva-Putla village (Püha)
Loona village (Püha)
Mässa village (Jämaja)
Orinõmme village (Pöide)
Oti settlement (Pöide)
Pahavalla village (Pöide)
Ridala village (Pöide)
Soonda village (Muhu)
Sõrve
Turja village (Valjala)
Tõnija village (Valjala)
Veere village (Pöide)
Võhma village (Pöide)
Sound recordings
Headings of the songs Aa-Zz
- 1. Shipwreck
- 2. Once upon a time there lived a man (David and Goliath)
- 3. The tailors' party
- 4. Skylark
- 5. Timmu-tammu
- 6. Back in the year of 1906
- 7. The Germans have been looking for a fight for quite a while
- 8. 'Twas a lad from around the Haeska manor
- 9. It's gonna turn pretty noisy around here
- 10. Kuressaare recreational park and seashore
- 11. Our fathers and mothers are islanders
- 12. Our Saaremaa
- 13. Little sister-islands
- 14. In a castle atop the mountain (circle game with insert dance songs)
- 15. The road through Sääre village
- 16. Our Saaremaa
- 17. Passing by the Pöide church
- 18. And the twenty one (circle game)
- 19. Alone amongst strangers
- 20. Mother took the cradle to the meadow
- 21. Birds upon the treetops
- 22. I'll take a young wife
- 23. Horn tune
- 24. Girl, your gaze strikes right through the heart (soldiers' song)
- 25a. The big mighty ship (insert dance song of a circle game)
- 25b. I sat on the threshold (insert dance song of a circle game)
- 25c. War, oh war (insert dance song of a circle game)
- 25d. I saw a flower in the valley (insert dance song of a circle game)
- 25e. Flowers blooming in the meadow (insert dance song of a circle game)
- 25f. Estonian boy (insert dance song of a circle game)
- 26. Girlie girl (circle game with insert dance songs)
- 27. High atop the mast
- 28. On the battlefield in the far away land
- 29. Soon comes the time
- 30. On the wide expanse of the Atlantic
- 31. Coming to Toila (song of a deep-sea sounding team)
- 32. In February, when the weather's harsh (seal hunter's song)
- 33. Whoever sailed the sea
- 34. Tip of Sõrve is a nest of songs
- Aasa peal õitsevad (ringmängu vahelaul)
- Atlandi ookeani laial pinnal
- Ema viis hälli heinamaale
- Ennemuiste oli üks mees (Taavet ja Koljat)
- Juba väljal puude otsas
- Kaugel üksi võõra rahva hulgas
- Kes purjetand on laevaga
- Kui aastanumber sai 1906
- Kui läed mööda Pöide kergust
- Kui rätsepate aastapäev
- Kui Toila tulin (loodipoiste laul)
- Kuressaare huvielu park ja mereäär
- Kõrgel masti tipus
- Küll te kuulete siin müra
- Küünlakuus, kui ilm on käre (hülgeküti laul)
- Laevahukk
- Liiri-lööri löuke
- Meie isad ja emad on saarlased
- Mina istsin ukseläve pääl (ringmängu vahelaul)
- Mina nägin orus lille (ringmängu vahelaul)
- Mäe otsas kaljulossis (ringmäng vahelauludega)
- Neiu, sinu silmavaade (sõdurilaul)
- Neiukene noorukene (ringmäng vahelauludega)
- Oh eesti poiss (ringmängu vahelaul)
- Oh sõda, sõda (ringmängu vahelaul)
- Oh te väiksed sõsarsaared
- Pea jõuab aeg
- Sakslane küll tahtis ammu
- Sarvelugu
- Seal võõrsil valuväljal
- See kakskümmend üks (ringmäng)
- See oli üks Haeska mõisa ligidalt poiss
- See Saaremaa
- See Saaremaa
- See suure uhke laevaga (ringmängu vahelaul)
- Sörve ots on laulupesa
- Tee Säärekülast läbi käib
- Timmu-tammu
- Võtan aga naise noorukese