Goli az dast beraft (2017) (گلی از دست برفت)

SATB a cappella

‫ﮔﻠﯽ از دﺳت ﺑرﻓت‬ “Golī az dast beraft”

by

Daniel Sabzghabaei (2017)

Poem and Translation ‫ﮔﻠﯽ از دﺳت ﺑرﻓت و ﺧﺎر ﻣﺎﻧده‬ ‫ﺑﮫ ﻣن ﺟور و ﺟﻔﺎ ﺑﺳﯾﺎر ﻣﺎﻧده‬ ‫ﺑﮫ دﺳﺗم ﻣﺎﻧده طﻔل ﺷﯾر ﺧواری‬ ‫ﻣرا اﯾن ﯾﺎدﮔﺎر ﯾﺎر ﻣﺎﻧده‬ Golī az dast beraft

A flower was lost

Golī az dast beraft-o khār mānde Be man jūr-o jafā besyār mānde Be dastam mānde tefle shīrkhārī Marā īn yād-e gāre yār mānde.

A flower slipped from my hand; what remains is a thorn.

What remains is pain and suffering.

In my hands remains an infant: This is my Belovèd's memorial.

- Tradtional Persian lullaby text

-translated by Daniel Sabzghabaei

Performance Notes For this opening humming gesture, singers should gently and slowly gliss together around the indicated pitches at almost a whisper.

Program Notes This short and somber Persian lullaby, in the form of a rubaiyat, tells of the loss of a lover and what remains in the shadow of this loss. The text is presented in three iterations, bookended by ethereal, gentle humming. The first presentation acts as a hushed and fragile recount of the speaker's loss, the sighing nature of the leaps in the melodic structure emphasized by the limping, hollow unisons. The second presentation offers a partial harmonization of various stressed and unstressed syllables and words with a slightly stronger, more intense dynamic. The final presentation is a full harmonization and elegiac declaration which descends into a muted and muddled finish, wandering, humming, soothing.

-Daniel Sabzghabaei (2017)

c.a. 5’30”

Farsi Pronunciation Guide -Although strange to wrap the tongue around for those who have never spoken or sung in it, Farsi has relatively few rules to follow that, once memorized, make pronunciation and recognition much easier.

-Most English speakers find the gutturals in Farsi to be the most troublesome of any hurdle to get over when learning to speak or sing the language. They can be clumsy and strange for unfamiliar mouths, but with a little practice, Persian gutturals can be learned quickly and effectively.

-Below is a detailed description of the phonetic spelling system that is used throughout the score: The H h is always sounded unless at the end of a word.

The R r is slightly rolled.

Ā ā is like the a in tall.

A a is like the a in ham.

E e is like the e in let.

I i is like the i in him.

To ease the language learning process, recordings of a native speaker reciting the poetry are also available from the composer.

Ī ī is like the ee in feed.

U u is like the oo in food.

J j is like the J in Jolly.

G g is like the g in get.

Gh gh is like a guttural g.

Kh kh is like a forward guttural k.

Q q is like a swallowed guttural k.i Ch ch is the ch in change.

for the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers

‫گلی از دست برفت‬ "Golī az dast beraft" Traditional Persian lullaby text

Soprano

Daniel Sabzghabaei

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bes - yār mān - de.

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© Daniel Sabzghabaei, 2017

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rearticulate hmms where noted

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