Details
- Instrument:
- Piano Solo
- Genres:
- Christmas Carols Traditional
- Publishers:
- Oleksandra Piastro
- Series:
- ArrangeMe
- Format:
- Score
- Item types:
- Digital
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Usages:
- School and Community
- Number of Pages:
- 9
SKU: A0.1705759
Composed by Mykola Leontovych&Peter J. Wilhousky. Arranged by Oleksandra Piastro. This edition: pdf. Christmas, Folk, Traditional. Score. 9 pages. Oleksandra Piastro #1269591. Published by Oleksandra Piastro (A0.1705759)."Shchedryk" (Щедрик, from Ukrainian: Щедрий вечiр, lit. 'Bountiful Evening') is a Ukrainian 'shchedrivka', or New Year's song, known in English as "The Little Swallow". The song tells a story of a swallow flying into a household to sing of the wealth that will come with the following spring. "Shchedryk" was originally sung during koliada on the night of 13 January, New Year's Eve in the Julian calendar (31 December Old Style), known in Ukraine as Malanka.
The ukrainian folk song was arranged by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych between 1901 and 1919 with early performances of the piece being performed by students at Kyiv University. It was made into a Christmas carol, "Carol of the Bells", by the American composer and educator Peter J. Wilhousky, following a performance of Leontovych's composition by Alexander Koshetz's Ukrainian National Chorus at Carnegie Hall on 5 October, 1922. Wilhousky copyrighted and published his own lyrics in 1936. The music has since become strongly associated with Christmas.
I created my arrangement of this famous song in 2023, inspired by the version of the famous American songwriter and record producer Tommee Profitt "Carol of the Bells (Epic Cinematic Piano Version)" from 2014. Therefore, my version will contain choral (original) motifs and motifs from Tommy Profitt's version. I would call it a collage: a combination of originality and an epic piano version of a famous Ukrainian song. I hope you like it.
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- ArrangeMe:
- Oleksandra Piastro
- Series:
- ArrangeMe
- Instrument:
- Piano and Keyboard Piano Piano Solo
- Publisher:
- Oleksandra Piastro