Metivuri
( So you make verses, before the rooster crows )
( Egre melekse, sanam mamali qiodes )
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:
Folk music ; Secular
Mood of the piece:
virtuoso ; broad
Type of Choir:
AAB OR ATB OR TTB (3 mixed voices )
Soloist(s):
Ad libitum (2 soloist(s))
Difficulty choir (incr.from 1 to 5):
3
Difficulty conductor (incr.from A to E):
C
Duration:
3.0 min.
Number of verses:
6
Origin:
Georgia
Musicological Sources:
I. Kagarateli recorded this song in Kartli and G. Chkhikhvadze included it in a compilation in 1960. this would have been sung by two ferrymen trying to outdo each other as improvisational poets on the raft. This is the version as sung by Ketevan Mindor
