Product Description
GREEK FOLK SONG: THALASAKI MOU (Sea, my dearest)
Traditional song from the Aegean Islands arranged for SATB choir
In a country surrounded by an often very stormy sea, and including hundreds of islands, this song is a prayer addressed to it, to spare the lives of loved ones.
duration: just under 3'
Phonetic transcription in the Latin alphabet is notated right below the original Greek text, English translation, and a key to Greek Pronunciation are provided on the title page.
The mp3 file provided is exported from the sibelius file.
For more information on the arranger, (member of TONO, the Norwegian copyright org.), please visit website www.zlatanou.net
The arrangement attempts to adher to the genuine Greek folk music style as well as allowing some "sea waves" through it.
A piano part is not included but a piano may accompany the choir, dubling the parts, if this is desirable by the conductor.
As a Greek living in Norway for most of my adult life, and in my many years work as a conductor of a Norwegian choir specializing in Greek music (!), I have experienced the need to enrich the choirs repertoire with both folk song- as well as other -arrangements of Greek music: This gave me the opportunity to share with our audiences some of the centuries-long musical heritage, as well as helping me make known to them some of the History behind the music of a country of such international historical influence in the past, and such a tourist magnet in our times.
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