Pearls of Bulgarian Folklore

Ivanka Ivanova Piеtrek

Artistic name - Ivanka Ivanova

“Pearls of Bulgarian Folklore”

“New Songs from the Pazardzhik Region”

Part Seven

“55 Author Songs of Ivanka Ivanova after Samples

from Authentic Folklore Songs with Music Notation and Lyrics”

ISBN 978-3-7375-2025-6

Description of the book

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55 unpublished Author songs of the singer based on authentic folk songs from Pazardzhik, with music and lyrics classified by type and explanations of foreign words, unfamiliar words and dialect

Lyrics are in Bulgarian original written in Latin letters, and translated into English.

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55 nicht veröffentlichte Autorenlieder der Sängerin, geschaffen auf Grundlage authentischer Volkslieder aus der Region Pazardshik incl. Noten und Texte, klassifiziert nach ihrer Art und mit Erklärungen der Fremdwörter, unbekannte Wörter und Dialekte

Songtexte sind in bulgarischer Sprache Original in lateinischen Buchstaben geschrieben, und in English übersetzt.

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55 непубликувани авторски песни на певицата, създадени по образци на автентични народни песни от Пазарджишко, с ноти и текст, класифицирани по вид и с обяснения на чуждиците, непознатите и диалектните думи.

Текстовете са на български оригинален написани с латински и преведени на английски език.

FOREWORD

The author, composer, arranger, and editor of the electronic book “Pearls of Bulgarian Folklore” “New Songs from the Pazardzhik Region” Part Seven is the folklore singer Ivanka Ivanova Pietrek, whose artistic name is Ivanka Ivanova. Her songs haven’t been published, they’re created by her after samples from authentic folk songs from the Pazardzhik region, which she has collected for years. It is known that she collected over 1000 authentic songs.

All her books until this time have contained published and already popularized songs from the Pazardzhik region that she performs herself.

What makes the author publish this new series of books?

Her love for the Bulgarian people and her long-lived dream to preserve in a book the songs she collected. Songs that can stay for the future generation and for all the lovers of Bulgarian folklore around the world.

Our people have survived because we sang …

And our songs contain the daily life, the manners, the history, the customs …

The roots of being Bulgarian are exactly in the folklore arts as a whole, and this is her goal – for them to be preserved and passed on to the future generations.

The songs heretofore recorded are in the previous e-books by Ivanka Ivanova:

2012 – “Folklore Dedication” – Self-teacher in folk singing in four languages – Bulgarian, Russian, German, and English

http://youtu.be/kQBpUAfiHCM

2013 – The tetralogy “The Songs of Ivanka Ivanova” – Parts One, Two, Three, and Four – in three languages, Bulgarian, German, and English follows – each book with 44 Pazardzhik folk songs from her repertoire, with musical notation and lyrics.

All 176 songs have been recorded in various radio stations, TV channels, compact discs. The fourth book also introduces one authored carnival song in German – “Katrin”.

Stanchitse le bayovata tetralogy Ivanka Ivanova s songs BG,DE,E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW4K4R0449o&feature=youtu.be

2013 The The e-book “THE FEARFUL REBEL leader STRAHIL” was published in three languages – Bulgarian, German, and English.

It is a small book, but it can easily become the theme for the script of a movie for the famed hayduk leader Strahil. The song about Strahil has been attached to the booklet with notation and lyrics.

2014 e-book “Pearls of Bulgarian Folklore” “New Songs from Pazardzhik Region” – Part One,Part Twoo, Part Three,Part fourth, Part fifth, Part sixth

2014 In the current e-book “Pearls of Bulgarian Folklore” “New Songs from Pazardzhik Region” – Part Seven the following have been presented:

Daily live folk songs, historic folklore songs, ritual folk songs – Christmas folk songs, Humorous folk songs,children’s folk songs, Love folk songs, working-bee folk songs, labour folk songs –harvest, hayduk/rebel folk songs,

For your ease, there is also a short presentation on the specifics of the Pazardzhik Folklore Region.

You can follow the realization of other projects of the folklore singer Ivanka Ivanova. e final number of parts has not been settled on with a finality.

All the products of the author this far, you can find at her profile at the following location:

http://www.epubli.de/shop/autor/Ivanka-Ivanova-Pietrek/4169.

The specifics of the Pazardzhik Folklore Region

It is a specific part of the Thracian folklore region and it is a mixed region from the folklore point of view. It is influenced on the Thracian, the Rhodope, the Pirin and the Sofia sing tradition. It is characterized by a large variety of beats. A two-voice part is detached from the town of Vakarel to the Topolnitsa river and there are two singers in a band in Sestrimo and Varvara villages.

The songs in two voices with dynamic second voice are separated around Velingrad town. The highest interval between the first and the second voice is fourth.

The Western part of the Thracian lowland begins from Pazardzhik town. The town is a juncture between Europe and Asia. The pause between the couplets is typical for the singing of the region. The common beats here are 2/4- Pravo horo, 11/16- Krivo horo, 7/8- ruchenitsa, 5/8- Paidushko horo, 9/8- Daichovo horo, 13/16…and mixed beats like 5/8 + 9/8- Yovino horo. The slow songs have the typical throat trembling (modulating of the sound). The songs are thematically various: harvesting, heroic, mythical, haidouk, love, songs for table, for work and working-bee.

The traditional instruments are wooden flute, bagpipe (dzhura), rebec, tambourine and drum.

Daily live folk songs

1 Bulka varvi prez gora zelena/ Bride is walking through a green forest

Bulka varvi, bulka varvi

prez gora zelena,

kato varvi, kato varvi,

zhalno, milno duma:

„Cherney goro, cherney sestro,

dvamka da cherneem,

ti ot liste, goro, sestro,

az ot moyta mladost!

Tebe goro, tebe sestro,

slana oslanilo,

moyta mladost goro, sestro,

ot varli dushmani!

Do shte prolet goro, sestro,

ti shte Bitovi narodni pesni

Bulka varvi prez gora zelena

Bulka varvi, bulka varvi

prez gora zelena,

kato varvi, kato varvi,

zhalno, milno duma:

„Cherney goro, cherney sestro,

dvamka da cherneem,

ti ot liste, goro, sestro,

az ot moyta mladost!

Tebe goro, tebe sestro,

slana oslanilo,

moyta mladost goro, sestro,

ot varli dushmani!

Do shte prolet goro, sestro,

ti shte se podmladish,

moyta mladost, goro, sestro,

niyde veche nyama!”

1. Bride is walking through a green forest

Bride is walking, bride is walking

through a green forest.

As she walks, as she walks

She sais pitifully, mournfully:

“Black forest, black sister,

Let’s both of us get black,

You because of your leaves

I because of my youth!

You forest, you sister

You got frost bitten,

My youth, forest, sister,

got black, because of enemies.

In the spring, forest, sister,

you will get young,

my youth, forest, sister

will never get back!

2. Vey ma, vetre vey ma/Blow me away, wind

Vey ma, vetre vey ma

vey ma, ne lyuley ma,

vey ma, ne lyuley ma,

sama shte se lyulyam,

maytsi voz yadove,

teyno kaharove,

maytsi voz yadove,

teyno kaharove!

Che ne sa me dali

dek sam azi shtyala,

dek sam azi shtyala,

shtyala obichala,

siromashko myasto,

na dobro yunache,

siromashko myasto,

na dobro yunache!

Ami sa me dali

deka te sa shtyali,

deka te sa shtyali,

shtyali, obichali,

na bogato myasto,

na manichko dete,

na bogato myasto,

na manichko dete!

Az na voda tragna

i to po men tragne

i to po men tragne

pa na mene duma:

„Chakay mene, mamo

i az s teb da doyda

chakay mene, mamo

i az s teb da doyda!”

A azi mu dumam,

dumam i produmam,

a azi mu dumam,

dumam i produmam:

„Az ne sam ti mayka,

ami sam ti libe!

Az ne sam ti mayka,

ami sam ti libe!”

ti mayka,

ami sam ti libe!

Az ne sam ti mayka,

ami sam ti libe!”

2. Blow me away, wind

Blow me away wind, blow me away

blow me away, do not swing me

blow me away, do not swing me.

I can swing myself

over my mother’s worries

over my father’s troubles

over my mother’s worries

over my father’s troubles.

Because they didn’t give me

Where I wished

Where I wished

where I loved to-

the poor home

of a good fellow

the poor home

of a good lad!.

They gave me

where they wished

where they wished

where they wished and loved to.

To a rich home,

to a little child.

to a rich home

to a little child!

When I go for water

It comes after me

It comes after me

And it tells me:

“Wait for me, mom

I’ll come with you

Wait for me, mom

I’ll come with you”

And I tell him

I tell him, I say to him,

And I tell him

I tell him, I say to him:

“I’m not your mother

I’m your wife

I’m not your mother,

I’m your wife!”

3 V selo zlatari doydoha/Goldsmiths came to our village

V selo zlatari doydoha,

zlatni obetsi noseha,

noseha da gi prodavat,

vsite bivole vodeha.

A Rada kleto sirache,

tya nyama pari da kupi.

Rada na Stoyan govori:

„Libe Stoyane, Stoyane!

Zlatari, libe doydoha,

zlatni obetsi noseha,

a azi, libe ne mozhah,

obetsi za men da kupya!”

3. Goldsmiths came to our village

Goldsmiths came to our village

They brought golden earrings

They brought them to sell them.

They all had buffaloes.

Radka, poor orphan

She didn’t have money to buy them.

Rada told Stoyan:

“Stoyan, my love, Stoyan!:

“Goldsmiths came, my love

They carried golden earrings

But I couldn’t buy

I couldn’t buy them, my love!”

4 V tamnitsa lezhi Nikola/Niklola lie in dungeon

Mori Nikola, Nikola

kakvo e darvo visoko,

a pod darvoto byal kamak,

a pod kamaka tamnitsa.

V tamnitsa lezhi Nikola,

na raka sokol darzheshe

i na sokola dumashe:

„Abre sokole, sokole!

Neshtichko shte te popitam!

Moite bashtini dvori,

dali sa pusti ostali,

dali sa s pelin obrasli?”

Sokol na Nikola govori:

„Snoshti pokray doma ti minah.

bashta ti na dvori beshe,

nova si kola gradeshe!

Mayka ti pri nego sedeshe,

byala kadelya predeshe.

Sestra ti dvori meteshe.

bulka ti kravi doeshe!”

4. Niklola lie in dungeon

Hey Nikola, Nikola,

there is a tall tree

under the tree-white stone

under the stone-a dungeon.

Nikola lies in a dungeon

he holds a falcon on his arm

and he sais to the falcon:

“Hey falcon, falcon!

I’ll ask you something.

Are my father’s yards deserted?

Are they deserted,

or overgrown with wormwood?

The falcon told Nikola:

I passed by your home last night

Your father was in the yard

He was building a new cart!

Your mother was with him

She was spinning a distaff-full of white wool.

Your sister was sweeping the yard

Your wife was milking the cow.”

5 Gane le/Hey, Ganey

Gane le, Gana e rano ranila,

Gane le, po pole metla da bere.

Gane le, ne nayde metla da bere.

Gane le nay nayde Gana oracha.

Gane le, det ore orach i plache,

Gane le ot tova ralo krushevo.

Gane le, ot tiya ludi volove.

Gane le, ot taz previta kopriva.

5. Hey, Ganey

Gana woke up early

to gather broomcorn, hey Ganey

She didn’t find broomcorn

Gana found the ploughman, hey Ganey.

Where he ploughs and cries, hey Ganey

He cries because of this pear plough, hey Ganey

Because of this wild oxen, hey Ganey

Because of this bent nettle, hey Ganey.

6. Da znayat, male/ Little lasses should know, my mom

Da znayat, male, da znayat,

da znayat malkite momi,

da znayat, da se ne zhenyat.

Che e zhenilo, chernilo,

dorde e moma pri mayka,

na litse byala, chervena.

Ide li moma pri momko,

tya stane zhalta,

zelena,

kato prezryala limona.

6. Little lasses should know, my mom

Little lasses should know, my mom

Little lasses should know, my mom

That they shouldn’t get married

That they shouldn’t get married

Because a marriage is a hard life.

While a lass is with her mother

Her face is white and red.

When she go to a lad

She becomes yellow and green

Like overripe lemon.

7. I az sam edna na mayka/ I’m an only child to my mom

I az sam edna na mayka

i tya se za men zavayka/2

Che nyama da me ozheni,

che nyama da me zadomi/2

Che nyamam tanki darove

za svekar i za svekarva/2

za svekar i za svekarva,

za dever i za etarva/2

7. I’m an only child to my mom

I’m an only child to my mom

She is worried for me

That I’m not getting married

That I’m not going to find a home.

That I don’t have fine gifts

For father and mother in low

For father and mother in low

For brother in low and his wife.

8. Iskaha me dvama trima ot selo/Two, three lads from the village wanted me

Iskaha me dvama trima ot selo,

men me mama na selyanin ne dade.

Mama me dade na ermenliya, deliya,

shto ne znae delnik, praznik koga e.

Izprati me na nay malkata niva,

malka, malka, devet deset dekara.

Navedoh se, koga slantseto izgre,

izpravih se, koga slantseto zayde.

Pa se kachih na visoka mogila

dano vida nyakogo ot nashite,

ne si vidyah nikogo ot nashite,

nay si vidyah ermenliya deliya.

Ne me pita gladna li si, ne li si,

nay ma pita kolko snopa ozhana,

ne me pita gladna li si, ne li si,

nay ma pita kolko snopa ozhana.

8. Two, three lads from the village wanted me

Two, three lads from village wanted me

But my mom didn’t give me to a villager.

She gave me to a wild Armenian

That doesn’t know when is a weekday when is a weekend.

He took me to the small field

Small, small but nine or ten decares.

I bent at sunrise

I straighten up at sunset.

I went up a high mound

I hoped to see someone of my people

I’ve not seen anybody of them

I’ve seen the wild Armenian.

He didn’t ask me if I’m hungry or thirst

He asked me how many sheaf I’ve reaped.

He didn’t ask me if I’m hungry or thirst

He asked me how many sheaf I’ve reaped.

9. Kolyo na Neda tihom govori/Kolyo to Neda speaks quietly

Kolyo na Neda mori,

tihom govori:

„Za kakvo plachesh, Nedo,

za kakvo zhalish?

Dali si gladna, Nedo,

ili si zhadna?

Dali si gola, Nedo,

ili si bosa?”

Neda na Kolyo mori