Folk Songs of Goa: Mando-Dulpods & Deknnis
>From the Jacket:
Konkani Song, of which Goan Song is the preeminent
branch, is a treasury of the traditional music of the
Indian subcontinent. It has at least 35 types,
monophonic and harmonic, the former prevalent before
the Portuguese brought Western music into India, and
the latter, consequent to the Western impact. It was
in Goa that Indian musicians first began to compose in
Western musical forms, incorporating into them motifs
and nuances of their own immemorial tradition.
Among these 35 types four were created to accompany
social dancing; the Mando, the Mando-dulpod, the
Dulpod, and the Deknni. The Mando, the finest creation
of Goan Song, is a slow verse- and - refrain
composition, in six-four time, dealing with love,
tragedy and contemporary events, both social and
political. Aryan Books International has published two
volumes on the Mando, entitled, Song of Goa, vol. 1:
Mandos of Yearning (2002); and vol. 2: Mandos of Union
and Lamentation (2003).
While the Mando is an art song, the remaining three
types represent Goan folk song. The Mando-dulpod is a
slower variety of the Dulpod (or a quicker sort of
Mando), also in six-four time, facilitating the
transition from the slow rhythm of the Mando to the
quicker one of the Dulpod. The Dulpod itself, in
six-eight time, is typically descriptive of everyday
life in traditional Goa, particularly that of the
Christians. The Deknni ("song of the Deccan") is a
song imitating Hindu music in the musical idiom
current among the Christian, in two-four or six-eight
time, descriptive mostly of Hindu life, with special
attention given to the temple dancers. The present
volume contains examples of the Mando-dulpod and the
Deknni. Hopefully a future volume will be devoted to
the Dulpod.
About The Author:
JOSE PEREIRA (1931) is Professor Emeritus of Theology
of Fordham University, New York, where he lectured on
History of Religious. He has taught and done research
in various academic institutions in Lisbon, London and
Varanasi, and has published 20 books and over 140
articles on theology, history of art and architecture,
and on Goan and Konkani culture, language, literature
and music.
MICAEL MARTINS (1914-1999), of Ol-lli/Orlim, Goa,
studied music in Goa, and in Bombay with renowned
music teachers. He performed for various societies in
Bombay and Delhi, and led orchestras of films in
Bombay. He began collecting traditional Goan songs,
art and folk, in 1933, and collaborated with Jose
Pereira in recording Konkani songs from 1954, putting
together as many as 11,000 number. Martins
incorporated several motifs from traditional Goan song
into his classical musical compositions.
ANTONIO DA COSTA (1943), a priest, psychotherapist and
musician, is currently working in the field of
gerontology and ministers to the elderly in Arizona,
U. S. A. As a musician he was trained in the Saligao
and Rachol Seminaries, the London Trinity School of
Music (in Bombay), the Juillard School of Music and
Columbia University, New York. Inspired by his mother
Arsentina, he began collecting specimens of
traditional Goan song from the age of 16, and for
several years broadcast mandos, dulpod, deknnis,
fugrhis, hymns and motets over Radio Goa, with the
assistance of the choral groups he had founded and
directed. He also organized concerts of Goan music in
Bombay, Pune and Mangalore to expose Goan audience to
the treasures of their traditional music.
TEXT, SCORE, TRANSLATION AND NOTES
Mnado-Dulpods 1
1. ADVOGADANY'M VARHOILEAIM HARHAM
2. AITRACH' SOKANNIM MISSAKO
3. BANNALEANTUM MUZO GAUM-UM
4. CECILIO MUJEM NAUM
5. DANDDEA' CAETAN BUTIQUEIRU
6. ESTUD SANDDUN BOUNTAM MUNN
7. GARANTULIM BAIRI SOT-TONNOM
8. IM TIM LOTLLE' BAMBONNAM
9. LANOM Y AUM BURGEM ASTONNOM
10. Carmo Abreu & Arnaldo de Menezes
MAIM-PAI MAKA KORTAI RE FUGARO
11. RAINTUM TSOLI DINAIM KONNOM
12. SANGEARY AUM [SANKVALLE] PARHUM' GELOLIM
Deknnis 22
1. AG' Y AGA SONAR XETTI
Variant 1 ARE ARE XETTI DADA
Varient 2 BAVACH BOINNIM
2. AJ SOMARATSO DISU
Variant AMCHA SOMARACHA DISA
3. ALTORHI GONGA
4. ALTORHY SAN PELTORHI GELEARI
5. AMIM KOLVONTAM
6. ARE DEULLEA
7. AT-LAUNNEM ZALEM DADA
8. AUM SAIBA PELTORHI VOITAM
9. BOL-LOLY' XIDIE' MUKO NAM GA
10. BORIECHE TARI
11. BOTTU MELO
12. ERIKETY ADELAI-I
(HENRIQUETA ADELAIDE)
13. ERIKETY BAI ADELAI-I
(HENRIQUETA BAI ADELAIDE)
14. FARO DILE VO RE BABA
15. FONDDECHA DESIAGERY
16. FULO MALLUNUM
17. GE GE GE GE GE
18. GONNESPOTI RAYA
19. JAMNAM POROBAJA
20. KAINCH KARANN NAM
21. KAZOLL KUKUMM MANNYKA' PANNIM
22. KOLVONTAM Y AMIM PORVOTAVELIM
23. KUXTTOBA
24. MUJI MAIM-IM BOISOLEA
25. MUZO FULANTSO PORHU
Variant 1 MUJEM PAIANCHEM PAINZONN
Variant 2 MUJO MOGATSO POTI
26. NAUM MUJEM ERIKETI (HENRIQUETA)
27. OIRY OIRY OIRY DOGRA'
28. PAIAM' PAINZONNAM
29. PONNJECHA PATTEARY MAIM
30. PORTUGALA' SAUN
31. SAIBA RAYAN BANDU GATILA
Variant 1 AILE DONGURI
Variant 2 SAIBA RAYANUM BANDU GATILA
32. SAIBA TANDDELA
33. SATTI OZRANCH' BEN MUJE ADINOM
34. SOKANNY'M FURHEM UTTUN CHERH'M MUJ'M
35. TENDDULECHIM TENDDULIM
36. VAINGEM CAZAR ZATA MUNN
Variant of VAINGEM CAZAR ZATA MUNN
37. VOKOL Y AMCHI LOKMI SORI
38. XIRVORHECHIM CHERHVAM
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF MANDO-DULPODS & DEKNNIS
Folk Songs of Goa: Mando-Dulpods & Deknnis
IDE272
by Jose Pereira, Micael Martins and Antonio da Costa
Hardcover (Edition: 2005)
Aryan Books International
ISBN 81-7305-280-8
Size: 8.7" X 5.7"
Pages: 110
Priced: US$ 19.50
Gaspar Almeida
http://www.goa-world.com/goa/about_goa/
Upcoming Event in Kuwait: India Day - 1st April 2005 - Kuwait Entertainment
City.
May Ball 2005 - 12th May 2005 - Safir
Palace Hotel.
Share this LOVE movie www.TheLoveMovie.com
Goa's finest websites: http://www.colaco.net http://www.supergoa.com
http://www.goa-world.com
EXPRESSIONS (Goa) http://www.goa-world.com/expressions/
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site!
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
