Duets For Violin & Violoncello 146-161 (volume 10) String Duet - Digital Sheet Music

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GENERAL PREFACE – ΓΕΝΙΚΟΣ ΠΡΟΛΟΓΟΣ

This edition of violin and violoncello duets follows closely my publication of the same Greek folk pieces for classical guitar. The arrangements for guitar solo were written in two-part counterpoint and followed the strophic form of the folk songs involved. The melodic transcriptions of the folk melodies were not based in any particular performance, also avoiding the elaborate in many cases instrumental introductions associated with these songs. Thus, only the vocal melodies in a general recognizable version were presented. This new presentation for instrumental duets will stay with this generalised melodic version (without exploiting the instrumental introductions), but the form from strophic will become ternary (ABA). In the middle section the main melody will be played in the lower voice and the original guitar contrapuntal voice will be used in the upper voice if by chance it includes invertible counterpoint, otherwise new material will be added to fit the rules but also the intended harmony.
The total collection is centred more on the music from mainland Greece and less in that from the Islands.
The three dance rhythms of Kalamatianos (7/8), Tsamikos (3/4), and Syrtos Balos (2/4) are predominant in the whole first collection.

TECHNICAL

Separate parts have been included and they can be extracted as separate files with any free PDF editing programme on line.
Empty pages have been added for inclusion/deletion at will and left-right hand page arrangement.
Thematic Index with active internal links for ease of navigation have been added.
Audio file (mp3) has been added

CONTENTS

146 ΜΙΑ ΠΑΠΑΔΙΑ (A Certain Priest's Wife)
147 ΜΙΑ ΠΕΡΔΙΚΟΥΛΑ ΞΕΒΓΑΙΝΕ (A Little Partridge Was Coming Out)
148 ΜΙΑ ΣΜΥΡΝΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΠΑΡΑΘΥΡΙ (A Lass From Smyrna In The Window)
149 ΜΙΑ ΦΟΡΑ 'ΜΟΥΝΑ ΠΟΥΛΙ (Once I  Was A Bird)
150 ΜΟΙΑΖΕΙΣ (You Are Like...)
151 ΜΟΙΡΟΛΟΓΙ (Dirge)
152 ΜΟΥ ΠΑΡΗΓΓΕΙΛΕ Τ' ΑΗΔΟΝΙ (The Nightingale Messaged Me)
153 ΜΠΑΙΝΩ ΜΕΣ' Τ' ΑΜΠΕΛΙ (I enter the Vine Yard)
154 ΜΠΑΛΟΣ Ο (Balos Dance)
155 ΜΠΑΤΕ ΚΟΡΙΤΣΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΧΟΡΟ 1 (Girls, Joint The Dance 1)
156 ΜΠΑΤΕ ΚΟΡΙΤΣΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΧΟΡΟ 2 (Girls Joint The Dance 2)
157 ΜΠΕΡΔΕΥΤΗΚΕ ΜΙΑ ΛΕΪΜΟΝΙΑ (A Lemon Tree Was Entangled)
158 ΝΑ ΧΑΜΗΛΩΝΑΝ ΤΑ ΒΟΥΝΑ (Let The Mountains Come Low)
159 ΝΑΝΟΥΡΙΣΜΑ (Lullaby)
160 ΝΑΣΑΝ ΤΑ ΝΕΙΑΤΑ ΔΥΟ ΦΟΡΕΣ (I Wish Youth Was Twice)
161 ΝΑΧΑ ΝΕΡΟ 'ΠΤΟΝ ΠΛΑΤΑΝΟ  (I Wish I Had Water From The Plane Tree).