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"Hej Sokoly" - song research


lukasz_wie  1 | 5
1 Apr 2007   #1
hey I'm looking for as much possible information on this song as possible, I'm doing a project for a music theory class of mine, ill be doing a variation on it and my choir will eventually sing it, so i need as much information on this as possible!

smbit11.republika.pl/music/sokoly.htm

i found this, but im not sure how accurate it is, ive found a few versions of it.

some things im looking for:
the history of the song
accurate sheet music
good CD's of this song and others like it.
+ anything else you can add.

thanks everyone!
panpolish
4 Jul 2007   #2
Have you been able to find any more sites that have sheet music of any other polish folk songs by chance? thanks.
truhlei  10 | 332
17 Jul 2007   #3
I'll unite to lukasz_wie
What is known about this song? I have two its recordings. I can send them. My e-mail truhlei@mail.ru
kranzler  3 | 21
1 Sep 2007   #4
Does any one know how I could find the lyrics to this song....in Polish and maybe with an English translation?
OP lukasz_wie  1 | 5
22 Oct 2007   #5
ive still no luck on the song, anyone have anything on it? history or anything.

oh and just to clear up the first post, my choir MIGHT sing it, ha! if its good enough :] we'll see
polishtrucker  3 | 6
18 Jan 2010   #6
Jan 18, 10, 19:15 - Thread attached on merging:
Hey sokoly folk song

Im an polish american, born here in the us, my parents came from poland and i would like to know more about this folk song, I speak polish but i dont read or write polish well. Is this more of a ukrainan or polish song?
asik  2 | 220
18 Jan 2010   #7
Here all the details: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hej_Sokoly

and the song's two versions:
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pawian  221 | 25303
8 Sep 2012   #9
hey I'm looking for as much possible information on this song as possible, I'm doing a project for a music theory class of mine,

Tell you one thing - whenever we go on holidays and are staying near a disco or club, this fekking song is always a number one. When Poles hear it, they virtually go crazy and drą mordy like hell and smash the disco into small pieces.

That is why whenever I hear it I go mad.
thewingedhussars arrived
21 May 2021   #10
in the chorus there are two versions sung on various youtube versions:
Hej, hej, hej sokoły
Omijajcie góry, lasy, doły.
Dzwoń, dzwoń, dzwoń dzwoneczku,
Mój stepowy
Dzwoń, dzwoń, dzwoń
and
Hej, hej, hej sokoły
Omijajcie góry, lasy, dzki poly
Dzwoń, dzwoń, dzwoń dzwoneczku,
Mój stepowy
Dzwoń, dzwoń, dzwoń

so either mountains, forests and valleys or mountains, forests and the wild fields.
The song was first recorded in writing in the early years of the 19th century but who knows how old it was.
There are some similarities in musical form as well as content in 'A Cossack rode over the Danube' which is generally dated to the mid 18th century.

I went poking about when I had first seen Ogniem i Mieczem.
pawian  221 | 25303
21 May 2021   #11
Omijajcie góry, lasy, dzki poly

That`s wrong, the second version is góry, lasy pola, doły.

mountains, forests and the wild fields.

..fields and valleys.


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