曲名: Serenad för Två

前两天忙毕业答辩的事，忙得不可开交，终于结束了，答辩进行得很顺利，终于又毕业了，真不想离开学校。还好还会继续留在合唱团，有机会常到学校走走。

下面到正题，这首曲子是一首男女对唱的情歌，是 MK 里的 Hans Eriksson 作曲，KK 里的 Malin Brus 作词，要是没记错的话赢得了07年团里原创比赛的第三名。

据我所知，中国还没有类似情歌的合唱曲目（如果有，麻烦哪位告诉我一下），而传统的情歌对唱的曲子也是男女各一句，不过记得83＜射雕＞的一些主题曲是男 女二重唱的，不知道算不算。我们唱的时候，男女声对立而站，男女分别唱主旋律，并各自为对方伴奏，很是动听，不用想她的词，凭着乐曲，就能让人痴迷，陶 醉，情意绵绵了。

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The first time I heard this song was last year when the choir went to Roma. The director played the CD track that “The King Singers” album. They are so great, I was impressed by this song. And it went quit well in the concert in Roma. The audiences liked it very much.

Here’s the lyric:

Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone
Feeding her flock near to the mountain side.
The shepherds knew not,
they knew not whither she was gone,
But after her lover Amyntas hied,
Up and down he wandered
while she was missing;
When he found her,
O then they fell a-kissing.

The story of the song is: a shepherd was feeding her flocks in the mountain lonely, and her boyfriend Amyntas was looking for her but other shepherds didn’t know where was she either. So he went up and down of the mountain, finally found her and then they fell a kissing…

Isn’t it a funny song? It was published in 1599 by John Farmer. In Wikipedia it says:

An English madrigal is different fro m an Italian madrigal because it uses nonsense syllables like fa la la la la to characterize the piece. Farmer uses clever word painting. For example, in the opening line “Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone”, Farmer had only the soprano sing since she was all alone. In the next line “Feeding her flock near to the mountain side”, all the voices sang since it was her flock. Additionally, the second phrase, which begins with “Up and down he wandered” and ends with “then they fell a-kissing” repeats, causing the elision “kissing up and down.”

I like the “up and down” part, feel so active when hearing this song.

Can’t wait to listen?

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曲名：Att Angora En Brygga

这是一首女对男的情歌，由女声部的四个女生所唱，情宜绵绵。写到这我想到了在地震新闻中看到的一幕幕夫妻，情侣互相鼓励维持生命，不离不弃的故事。一个 男子在他的女友成功并安全救出后，记者问他：“经过这次，你觉得你们的关系会怎样呢？”他说：“一生一世。”是啊，经历了这样的灾难，他们将手捥手一起坚 定地生活下去。祝福他们！

请听……

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Here’s the 3rd song in this concert.

vatten means water in English, and drag means stream. I can’t understand much about the lyrics, something like fish boat, water and something. Sorry for that.

All 4 singers are Tenors, there’s a girl if you can tell. Her voice is too low, so it’s better and easier for her to sing Tenor. This is first time I’ve heard about that, at least before I came to Sweden. Everyone knows girls should dress beautifully but she can’t, she has to dress as the men’s do. Anyway, we just love it, no need to care about that.

It might be so anoying of the ‘numa numa’ thing, but it’s the style of humor, it works just fine with the melody and lyrics. So it deserves the audiances’ applause.

Please enjoy…

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