Blogodop

$3.50

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for SATB Chorus with piano accompaniment
(2014)
Duration: 4:00 minutes
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Note: It is a breach of copyright law to make more copies than the amount purchased. Please order the number of copies needed for every member of the ensemble, including the conductor and the accompanist.

Description

Blonk bloup blogodop! This rhythmically energetic piece full of fun nonsense syllables is sure to excite choirs and audiences alike. Inspired by a style of Haitian dance music called Rara, Blogodop will make you want to move your body!

Translation of Haitian Creole text:

Dansing Rara is freeing
Dansing Rara is unleaching
Take advantage of this moment
It will pass and won’t come back

Whoever you may be
This Rara will make you move
The crowd’s getting their groove on
The smell of love is rising
Come, come shake your body…

Click Here for complete text and English translation
Click Here Traducción al Español


 

Recordings

 


Blogodop – recording 1:
2017 Texas All-State Mixed Chorus
Z Randall Stroope, conductor
February 2017


Blogodop – recording 2:
Bexley High School Vocal Ensemble
Amy Johnston Blosser, conductor
World Premiere – February 25, 2014


Blogodop – recording 3:
Mt. San Antonio College Chamber Singers
Bruce Rogers, conductor


Blogodop – recording 4:
Hopkins High School Concert Choir
Philip Brown, conductor
May 2015


Blogodop – recording 5:
Cedar Falls High School Concert Choir
Eliott Kranz, conductor
May 2016


Blogodop – recording 6:
Liberty High School Singers
Robert Williams, conductor
Spring 2023

 

 


 

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