Mravalzhamieri (Georgian: მრავალჟამიერი) is a Georgian folk song, the title and the one-word text of which can be translated as "[may you live] a long life". It is a popular and widespread toasting song, with dozens of different versions from the countryside of both eastern and western parts of Georgia. There are also several variants of "urban" Mravalzhamieri, originally from Tbilisi. Mravalzhamieri is typically sung in three-voice polyphony, in which two highly improvised melodic parts are developed on the background of a pedal drone in a free metre.[1] The Mravalzhamieri version from the region of Kakheti, and that known as "urban" (k'alak'uri) were inscribed on the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Georgia list in 2013.[2][3] Mravalzhamieri is also a Georgian name of the Christian chant Polychronion.
References
edit- ^ Lechleitner, Gerda; Lomidze, Nona (2013). "Production and process: creative acting and perceiving: a case study on Georgian multipart singing". In Ahmedaja, Ardian (ed.). Local and Global Understandings of Creativities: Multipart Music Making and the Construction of Ideas, Contexts and Contents. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 80–81. ISBN 9781443852159.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "არამატერიალური კულტურული მემკვიდრეობა" [Intangible Cultural Heritage] (PDF) (in Georgian). National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation of Georgia. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
- ^ "UNESCO Culture for development indicators for Georgia (Analytical and Technical Report)" (PDF). EU-Eastern Partnership Culture & Creativity Programme. October 2017. pp. 82–88. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
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