Ch'ona
( House, may God build you )
( Ch'onao, ch'ona, sakhlo ghmertman agashenos )
Arr.: Ensemble Zedashe [ Georgia ]
Edition
Published by
Northern Harmony Publishing
[USA ; Vermont]
, 2007
; in Forged in Fire
(75 p.)
Number of pages :
3
Editor or author of the restitution:
Patty Cuyler
Type of material:
Full score
Copyright :
2007
Description
Text in:
Georgian
Genre-Style-Form:
Secular ; Folk music
Mood of the piece:
lyric ; virtuoso
Type of Choir:
AAB OR ATB OR SSA OR TBB OR TTB (3 mixed voices )
Soloist(s):
Ad libitum (2 soloist(s))
Difficulty choir (incr.from 1 to 5):
4
Difficulty conductor (incr.from A to E):
B
Duration:
5.0 min.
Number of verses:
3
Origin:
Georgia
Musicological Sources:
An extended lyrical table song from Kakheti in eastern Georgia, with tow highly ornate upper parts over a moving drone. Impossible to capture in conventional notation, this transcription uses the diagrammatic notation used by many singers in Georgia.
