Holocaust Cantata .-
The striped ones
Songs from the camps
( Their clothes veil the pride )
Edition
Ref. :
HMB-219
(3 p.)
Type of material:
Full score
Copyright :
2000 Hinshaw Music Inc.
Other titles on the same score:
The prisoner rises
; Song of the Polish prisoners
; In Buchenwald
; The train
; Song of days now gone
Description
Text in:
English
Epoque:
20th century
Genre-Style-Form:
Cantata chorus
Mood of the piece:
haunting
Type of Choir:
SSAA (4 women voices )
Difficulty choir (incr.from 1 to 5):
2
Difficulty conductor (incr.from A to E):
B
Tonality:
F minor
Duration:
3.5 min.
Musicological Sources:
Majdanek, 1943; a female prison song originally written in the Pasiak Prison in Warsaw that later became the Women's Anthem of Majdanek; folktune
Source of text:
Original Polish: Zofia Karpinska