Angels We HaveHeard on High (minimalist)

Christmas carolarrangement for piano solo with narration by Stephen R Dalrymple

sequenced by thecomposer

� 2018, ℗ 2020 Stephen R Dalrymple

In 2017 I began researching andwriting a university level music textbook explaining contemporary classicalmusic composition techniques. In 2018 I finished the 300+ page manuscript and usedit to teach two university music course in Haiti that year.

It had been many years since I hadtaken the course myself, and needed to add to my knowledge of late 20thCentury and early 21st Century classical music composition techniques.During my research I grew interested in a classical music minimalist styleinfluenced by Terry Riley and Philip Glass. I have tried to use some of theirideas in this composition. There are 10 sections that can be repeated,reordered, and combined so that the performer actually makes a contribution tothe creation of the work.

Playing the piano at church behind areading of Luke 2, was my first experiment in this new form of music. When Ireturned home, I began to experiment in writing down the experience andrefining the work according to these minimalist ideas. The composition could beperformed with or without the narration, with a single narrator in a singlelanguage, or with the narration in multiple languages and/or with multiplevoices.

Suitable for preludes,offertories, concerts, personal meditation. Includes 2 versions 1) piano score,letter size 2) piano score, small pageformat for performing from 10.1 inch tablet. UpdatedDecember 2020.

(Note: Tell your computer whichpages you want to print. There are programs online that will allow you to splitpdf files so that you can choose the correct part of the pdf for your tablet.)

I made this arrangement for most famous song from ex Yugoslavia and from Balkan. I wrote for two accordion or for two solo instruments with bass, fingering and with lyrics.
Ich habe diese Arrangement f�r ber�hmteste Lied aus ex Jugoslawien und aus Balkan gemacht. Ich habe f�r zwei Akkordeon oder f�r zwei solo Instrumente mit Bass, Fingersatz und Text geschrieben.
Ovaj aranzman sam napravio za najpoznatiju pesmu iz bivse Jugoslavije i Balkana. Napisao sam ju za dve harmonike ili za dva solo instrumenta sa basom, prstometom i tekstom.
Tamo daleko is a Serbian folk song which was composed on the Greek island of Corfu in 1916 to commemorate the Serbian Army's retreat through Albania during World War I. It is played in triple metre and begins solemnly in a minor key before switching to the relative major of the dominant key in the third line of the first verse, symbolizing hope before returning to the tonic minor key from the beginning. The lyrics to the song come in multiple versions, all of which end with the line "long live Serbia!"
Tamo daleko (kyrillisch: Тамо далеко; Deutsch: Dort, weit weg) ist ein traditionelles serbisches Lied aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Das Lied wird als Hymne der serbischen Soldaten betrachtet, die au�erhalb Serbiens f�r ihr Land k�mpften.
Tamo daleko wird von einem serbischen Soldaten gesungen, der auf Korfu stationiert ist. Die Streitkr�fte Serbiens hatten sich �ber Nordalbanien auf die Insel zur�ckgezogen und wurden von den Mittelm�chten bek�mpft.Der Soldat singt von seinem Heimatdorf, der zerst�rten Kirche, in der er heiratete, und dem katastrophalen R�ckzug seiner Kameraden, von denen viele an K�lte, Hunger und Krankheiten starben.Das Lied ist auch eines der beliebtesten nostalgischen Lieder der serbischen Einwanderer, die nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg nach Amerika zogen. F�r diese Menschen bezieht sich das Lied auf die Entfernung zu ihrem Heimatland.
Balkan music - serbian music - Balkan Musik - serbische Musik - Balkanska muzika - srpska muzika