Instrumental Duet Cello,Guitar,Instrumental Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.576586 Composed by David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,Contemporary,World. Score and parts. 11 pages. David Warin Solomons #38163. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.576586). The Swallows is based on the poem by Gourgen Mahari, as translated from the Armenian by James Russell. The Armenian poet Gourgen Mahari, who died in the USSR in 1969 is lamenting his many compatriots who were exiled, dispossessed and killed during the 20th century (poem shown below)  Versions are available on this site for: voice, clarinet, flute, violin, alto saxophone, cello or cor anglais and guitar and for voice, clarinet, flute, violin, alto saxophone, cello or cor anglais and piano The sound sample is an electronic preview. The pdf file contain score and parts. The original song can be heard on youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vucw5zpeGzQ ï»¿  == The Swallows == Far in the distant Nile Valley down nameless highways unknown, where the Dead Sea`s gloomy ripples break,  straining on their way unfinished home,  with a song in their hearts, the swallows died,  unable to return.  Far in the distant Nile Valley down down nameless highways unknown.  They never came back to adorn the Spring with heady song,  to chant with the winds the green meadow, rebuild abandoned nests.  They died on distant mountains, plains afar, unable to return. Far away.  Can they subsist with the love of our hearts  or our gardens` blossoms gay or our joyous vernal rains?  They who died on the way unfinished home.  Far in the distant Nile Valley.  Unable to return.

Instrumental Duet Cello,Guitar,Instrumental Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.577529 Composed by Anon. Arranged by David Warin Solomons. Classical,Renaissance,World. Score and parts. 6 pages. David Warin Solomons #1985937. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.577529). Instrumental duo based on an anonymous 15th century macaronic song about a girl who was made pregnant, and then abandoned, by a cleric. The melody is taken by the guitar in with variations in the middle, while the melody instrument has a countermelody, and then, in the final section, the melody instruments provides a few divisions. The sound sample is an electronic preview For interest here are the words of the original song with my translation of the Latin bits: Up I arose in verno tempore [in springtime] and found a maiden sub quadam arbore [under some tree] that did complain in suo pectore [in her bosom] saying I feel puerum movere [the little boy moving] Adieu pleasures antiquo tempore, [in times gone by] full oft with you solebam ludere. [I used to play] but for my sins mihi deridere [they hold me in derision] with right good cause incipio flere [I start to weep] Now what shall I say meis parentibus, [to my parents] because I lay with quidam clericus [some man of the cloth] They will beat me cum virgis et fustibus [with sticks and clubs] and me sore chaste coram omnibus [in front of everybody] With the said child quid faciam [what shall I do] shall I it keep vel interficiam [or kill it] If I slay it quo loco fugiam [where shall I flee to] I shall lose God et vitam eternam [and eternal life].