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Work

  • Composer: Tormis, Veljo
  • Years: 07.08.1930 - 21.01.2017
  • Title: Music for play "Songs Throughout the Village, or, In the Parisian City of London"
  • Genre: Music to plays
  • Instrumentation: voices, mixed choir, violin, guitar, accordion
  • Number of movements: 24
  • Titles of movements:
    1. Darning Needle's Song "When You Go by Pöide's Lightness" (Valjala)
    2. Girls' Song "A Young Lad from a Wealthy Family" (Sangaste)
    3. Boys' Song "Long Have I Wondered" (Saaremaa)
    4. Boys' Song "Us Both Worker Men" (Paistu)
    5. I Interlude "When I Was Young I Played" (Põlva)
    6. II Interlude "In Parisian City of London" (Karula)
    7. III Interlude "Once Upon On a Sunday Night" (Pöide)
    8. Leena's Song "Girls, Look Out"
    9. Muna-Mari's Song "Two Maidens Went to Walk in the Forest" (Rõuge)
    10. Boys' Marching Song "When a Child is Born" (Kambja)
    11. Boys' Song (Ending Song of Part 1) "When You Are Looking for a Wife" (Kursi)
    12. Juku's Song "Father felt Disdain for Me" (Krasnoyarsk Krai)
    13. Leena's Song "In Spring, During the Days of May" (Kaarma)
    14. Boys' Song "Mother Told Me"
    15. Darning Needle's Violin Tune "Polka"
    16. IV Interlude "Kõnnu Manor's Taskmaster Had..." (Kadrina)
    17. V Interlude "Down in the Valley On a Green Bench" (Kihnu)
    18. Linda's Song "I Think of It in Fear and Trembling"
    19. Mats's Song "O What a Poor Manor's Slave I am" (Kose)
    20. Leena's Song "Light is On, What a Heartache"
    21. Girls' Song "Zaftig and Pretty Maiden I am"
    22. Darning Needle's Song "Twenty Years of Age I am"
    23. Helmi's Song "Groom, Why did You Leave Me" (Torma)
    24. Ending Song "Here in Our Company" (Kihnu)
  • Text: folklore
  • Incipit (lyrics): Kui lääd mööda Pöide kergust
  • Year: 1972.

Manuscripts


  • Type of manuscript: Author manuscript
  • Sort: Score
  • Composer: Tormis, Veljo
  • Work: Music for play "Songs Throughout the Village, or, In the Parisian City of London"
  • Number of pages: 126
  • Date: 26.02.1972
  • Status: Finished
  • Location: Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
  • Number: ETMM_8336 M 318:2/276
  • Additional notes: Complete score, including 2 variants of interludes 2-5

  • Type of manuscript: Author manuscript
  • Sort: Score
  • Composer: Tormis, Veljo
  • Work: Music for play "Songs Throughout the Village, or, In the Parisian City of London"
  • Number of pages: 20
  • Date:
  • Draft: Yes
  • Location: Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
  • Number: ETMM_8336 M 318:2/276

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