Archive - N-Z

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Note: this list includes tunes that the group has sung at some point since about 2012--many more than are considered active in current repertoire.


Nebo i Zemlia (Heaven and Earth)

 

Neda Odi

  • Bulgarian Romani chalga (popfolk) song with instruments

  • Taught to Planina in 10/2017 by Carol Silverman

  • Lyrics

  • Sheet music

 

Ne duj mori vetre

 
 

Nikola odi po gori (warm-up)

  • Bulgarian warm-up in 11, taught by Tzvetanka Varimezova

  • lyrics (3 Warm-ups from Tzvetanka)

Nova radasts' stala

 

Ode e vogel me gelqere - See Albanian medley

Ofchar pojde niz gora zelena

  • Draginovo, Bulgaria

  • Women’s diaphonic, a cappella

  • Planina learned this on our 2018 trip

  • Lyrics

 Ogrejala meseČinka (Ogreala mesechinka)

Oira

Lithuanian (rump-bumping) dance we have taught at Russian Heritage camp

Oj, chorna

Oj, devojko, dušo moja

Lesnoto from Kosovo / Kosmet / Serbia

We learned it from Mary Sherhart in the mid-’90s

Sheet music / lyrics / translation

YouTube link 1: Guys singing with instruments

YouTube link 2: Woman singing a cappella

 

Oj Jovane

  • 2/4 tune from Pirin, Macedonia (now Bulgaria), Goce Delčev region

  • Accompanied by tamburas

 

O moj mile

Până când nu te iubeam

Romanian song.

Valerie brought the song into the group in 7/2021 and will be performing it as a solo with accordion, violin, frame drum.

Link to lyrics, source recordings, some background on the song, and sheet music (not in our key)

We are using the Maria Tănase version.

 

Pevano kolo

 

Pjoviau šiena

Lithuanian. We do this as a small group number with violin. One person (Laima) sings the first line, then others repeat it with her, then she sings the 2nd line and and others repeat it with her.

 

Pitat me Mamo

Song from Sandanski in the Pirin, Macedonia region of Bulgaria

Arranged, with instruments, mixed chorus. We learned this from Tatiana Sarbinska and performed it for several years as a small-group number. It is being revived in 2021 as a full-group number.

Pitat me mamo - score, lyrics, translation - IMPROVED 11-17-21

YouTube link


Polegnala e Tudora

Bulgaria, arranged, Filip Kutev. Piece done by Planina at various times in our history. Have done in the past as women’s only. Being revived 2/2025 as mixed chorus piece.

Polka with Horns (Polka su ragučiais)

 

Popoj mi slugo careva

  • Macedonia. Solo lead with other voices holding a one-note drone. We do it with accordion, with other instruments playing intermezzi between verses.

 

 Porushka

 

Posadila Baba

  • Pirin, Macedonia/Bulgaria, dance (2/4 horo), we do it as men's piece w/instruments, tambura tuning B/E

  • lyrics

  • lyrics 4 up

Pravo Medley

Planina has strung together different Rhodope pravos in medley form through the years. To find the individual songs from the current melody, look at the most recent list of Pravo Medley tunes, and then look up those songs alphabetically.

  • 2000, approx.

    • Hajda, Kalino

    • A bre junache

    • Pustunu ludo

    • Momne le mari hubava (pravo version)

  • 2009, approx.

    • Hajda, Kalino

    • Dimitro, sino Dimitro

    • Pustunu ludo

  • 2016, approx.

    • Hajda, Kalino

    • Stiga mi sa momne le

    • Dimitro, sino Dimitro

    • Pustunu ludo

  • 2019

    • Hajda, Kalino

    • Krifkono fesche, vidis li

    • Dimitro, sino Dimitro

    • Pustunu ludo

Prehvrukna ptichka

 

Pusta mladost

  • Pirin, Mac./Bulg., a cappella, men, A or G#

  • lyrics

Pustunu Ludo

  • Bulgarian, dance (pravo), usually the closer in Pravo medley, a cappella, starting note A

  • lyrics


Rada pere na rekata (warmup)



Radi na Radka dumanshe

Rano ranila mome dena (warmup)

  • Bulgarian, from Tzvetanka Varimezova

  • Lyrics

Rasti rasti, moz zeleni bore

  • Serbia, women's diaphonic, Ab

  • Lyrics

 

Romani chaj Amari

  • Macedonian Romani, we learned in 11/15 workshop with Carol Silverman, we do as mixed group, with inst., Dm

  • lyrics

  • sheet music

 

Rumela'j

 

Rumena si

 

Rusi kosi imam

  • Bulgarian, dance (the folk dancers do a special choreographed dance for this tune), w/inst., Dm

  • mp3

  • sheet music & lyrics

s Merak, Lyubov I Pesen

 

Sabrali sa se nabrali

  • Draginovo, Bulgaria; Milyo taught this to us in 2009, we sing it as a women's song w/ inst., tambura tuning B/E

  • We often sing it in a medley with Junak se vikna

  • Draginovo song packet (this song is on page 6 of the packet)

  • Slow, dissonant diaphonic version #1 (with men singing) - source recording - we may use one verse of this prior to singing the all-women version; this is the version that the singers on Planina’s CD followed for the intro verse

  • Slow, dissonant diaphonic version #2 (with women singing) - source recording - we may use one verse of this prior to singing the all-women version

 

Sabrali sa se sabrali (arranged)- see Sŭbrali sa se sŭbrali

 

Sadila baba luk chesnok

 

Sadilo/Tropnalo medley

Saraj Donko (warmup)

  • Bulgarian.

  • This is the warmup Rose taught Planina on 9/20/18.

  • Here’s a YouTube of an ensemble doing an extended version of the tune.

 

 Sarajevo

  • Bosnian, women, a cappella, we learned both a 2-part simple version and an arranged 6-part one, start on D, D# or E

  • lyrics

 

Satsekvao

 

Sava je Dunav je

 

 Sazeimo Perkhuli

 

Ščedryk

Single-part recordings:

Single-part lyrics:

 

Sedeko tsikhe maghalo

 

Se po svrshi serbez Donka

  • Macedonia, dance (ruchenitsa), mixed, with inst.

  • lyrics

 

 Sheni Bralia

 

 Shen khar venakhi

 

 

 Shto mi e milo

 

Shto si, Goro

 

Sidjala Janka na tlâka

  • Bulgarian warm-up from Tzvetanka Varimezova

  • lyrics

 

Sini Sini

 

Sjajna zvijezda

  • Bosnia, women's diaphonic, Eb

  • lyrics

 

Sluzhba

 

Snoshti e dobra kŭsna sedela (a.k.a. Snoshti e Dobra docna sedela)

  • Bulgaria, dance (chetvorno), women's diaphonic, tambura tuning F/C

  • lyrics

 

Snoshti si zdode

  • Bulgaria, women's, arranged, 3-part song we learned from Donka Koleva

  • Note: If you are learning the bottom voice, download both Parts A and B. It's not an additional voice; the recording was just broken into the first part and the second part.

  • sheet music and lyrics

 

Sokol mi leta

  • Macedonian, we do as men's tune, could be dance (horo), tambura tuning F/C or F#/C#

  • lyrics

 

Soup Song, Russian - see Sup var’it’

Stani zapali, TinkE

 

Stiga mi sa momne le

  • Bulgaria, men, sometimes part of Pravo Medley

  • lyrics

 

 Stoine

  • Bulgaria/Macedonia, we do this as men's song, tambura tuning F/C or F#/C# or sometimes G/D

  • men

  • lyrics

 

Sŭbrali sa se nŭbrali dzhanam

 
 

Sup var’it’ (soup song)

 

SÜT İÇTIM

  • Turkish, halay

  • We have done this as a small-group number with instruments.

  • The song has quarter tones but we "play it straight" because of instrument limitations.

  • Lyrics

  • YouTube

 

Svadba e Golema (folkdancers have a specific dance for this tune)

 

Svi Svatovi

 

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

  • American, Negro spiritual

  • Lyrics

 

Tamo Daleko

  • Serbia, dance (waltz), with instruments

  • lyrics

 

Tec, Peleite

 

Telegramma dojde

 

Treno, shterko Treno

 

Tri bilbilja poev

  • Vardar, Macedonia, village of Kuchkovo

  • We perform as men's diaphonic with tamburas

  • A/D tuning

  • Lyrics and sheet music

Triadafillia

 

Trugnal mi Jane Sandanski

  • Pirin Macedonia/Bulgaria, dance (lesnoto), can be done as a solo with instruments or group song with instruments, men or women or both, tambura tuning A/D or F/C or we have also done with accordion

  • lyrics

Tsangala da gogona

 

Tsintsharo, B


 Tsvite teren



Tuk mi, kazaha, Lazare

 

U Kyjevi na rynochku

  • Lyrics

 

Ujezhal daljoka mili

Uncle Trifon (Kak u d’iad’I Trifona byla s’em’era d’it’ei)

Vajta N'Elbasan - see ALBANIAN MEDLEY

 

Vecheraj, Ang'o

  • Macedonia (Vardar), men's diaphonic, dance (lesnoto), tambura tuning F/C or F#/C#

  • sheet music & lyrics

 

Verila, Verila

  • Russia, dance (waltz), mixed, Fm

  • lyrics

Verka, Kaludzherka

 

Warm-ups

 

 

Will the Circle Be Unbroken

  • American, based on a 1907 hymn

  • Lyrics

 

Yagmur Yagar

  • Turkish song from Macedonia, dance (lesnoto), mixed, with inst., key of B hijaz, 1st chord Em, vocal starts on B.

  • lyrics

 

 

Yianni mou to mandili sou

  • Greece, dance (sta dhio), with inst.

  • lyrics

 

Zamraknala e hubava Jana

Zemlianichka 

Ženi me, mamo

  • Dorkovo, Bulgaria - we do it as a men’s piece

  • lyrics

Živovali, Drugovali

  • Dorkovo, Bulgaria. We have done it as a mixed piece but as of 2018 are planning to do it as a men’s piece with accordion.

Zombie Jamboree