Preview: GREEK LIFE RONDO for String Quartet
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SKU: A0.1323031
Composed by Trad and Alan Edgar. Early Music,Folk,Religious,Traditional. 30 pages. Alan Edgar Ted Moon #911306. Published by Alan Edgar Ted Moon (A0.1323031).GREEK LIFE RONDO String 4tet Based on ancient tunes about Greek life.
The lively Food Market song (I'll buy you a rooster) forms the refrain.
Paraponiariko moy (Don't be unhappy, little one) is a short melody I found, with a scale I cannot name but very sad.
Kariotikos from Ikaria is a slow or accelerating dance with some singing, often seen at weddings, in a flexible mode (partly phrygian).
I entered the vineyard (Pour love over me) is related to Solomon's Song. I could only find about 6 bars of this melody: the rest is mine. Aeolian mode.
Lullaby: this lovely melody uses the Hitzaz scale, which is common in Greek regions and found in Africa, North America and Spain.
Hymn for Matins: this is the oldest Greek Orthodox chant I can find. It is from the 13th C Sticherarion and printed in modern notation in JISOCM Vol 4 (2), p357. Nowadays, chanting there is often a solo, often by a woman, but I believe parallel organum was heard in Greece from the 16th C. Modern services include 4- part hymns. I present all three styles.
Song of the Dead Brothers is a complex 9th C Byzantine mourning poem which has since been set to music many times. (The nine brothers died.) I found this phrygian setting from Karystos.
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