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American choral group Northern Harmony on Georgian TV, performing shape-note, jubilee, Corsican, Georgian music, and more!

#northern harmony #village harmony

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Civil rights protest song.

Ain't gonna let nobody turn me round

Gonna keep on walking, keep on talking

Marching up to freedom land.

#folk music #freedom songs #protest songs #chicago children's chorus #american

My Voice Is Ready returns to air tonight at 6 pm EST, for a show about American shape-note singing! Listen at 91.9 FM in the Pioneer Valley, or stream here.

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A traditional American song.

Lay down, my dear brother, lay down and take your rest.

Won't you lay your head down on your Savior's breast?

I love you, but Jesus loves you best.

And I bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight.

#folk music #the amidon singers #american

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A South African hymn.

He is fleeing, the devil is fleeing!

We have overcome the devil by the blood of the lamb.

#folk music #south african music #northern harmony #south african

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A South African hymn.

We are on the path of the voice of righteousness.

Are you going, are you going?

Are you going to heaven?

#folk music #south african music #polokwane #south african

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A folk song from the Republic of Georgia, featuring krimanchuli (Georgian yodeling). This song is meant to accompany dancing; all the words are nonsense syllables.

#folk music #georgian music #the starry mountain singers #krimanchuli #yodeling #georgian

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A folk song from the Republic of Georgia.

In my dream last night I saw you.

Your eyebrow was raised.

You were leaning out of the window, your hair hanging down.

I shooed the chickens across the river.

They fluttered all around.

When I see a handsome boy I tremble like the sea.

#folk music #georgian music #chonguri #gandagana #kavkasia trio #georgian

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A Corsican folk song for three voices.

Here are the Orezza mountains, where I was so happy.

The song of the dove with that of the partridge.

All the world says, here we are joyful.

#folk music #corsican music #village harmony #corsican

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A Bulgarian women's piece arranged for three voices.

#folk music #bulgarian music #bulgarian folk music #black sea hotel #the forest is shaking and swaying #bulgarian

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A Bulgarian women's piece.

#folk music #bulgarian folk music #bulgarian music #le mystere des voix bulgares #bulgarian

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A medley of a famous shape-note piece and a traditional Bulgarian song.

And am I born to die,

To lay this body down?

And must my trembling spirit fly

Into a world unknown?

#folk music #shape note music #bulgarian music #bulgarian folk music #ae #shape note #american #bulgarian

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Black manuscripts - actually on parchment that was painted black - are amongst the rarest manuscripts we have. At the end of the fifteenth century at the court of Burgundy they were popular for a while. Well known is the black hours in the Morgan Library, but barely known is the black manuscript in Brussels (KB 9085) with dance melodies. On a black ground the notes were drawn in silver while the text was written in gold. Underneath the golden text, silvery letters indicate the dance steps.

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