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- 1. Georgian Traditional Music Natia Chikvinidze Class 11, LEPL Tbilisi N207 Public School
- 2. Folk music The folk music of Georgia consists of at least fifteen regional styles, known in Georgian musicology and ethnomusicology as "musical dialects". The Western Georgian group of musical dialects consists of the central region of western Georgia, Imereti; three mountainous regions, Svaneti, Racha and Lechkhumi; and three Black Sea coastal regions, Samegrelo, Guria, and Achara. Georgian regional styles of music are sometimes also grouped into mountain and plain groups.
- 3. Professional music Professional music in Georgia existed at least from the 7-8th centuries, when Georgian composers started translating Greek orthodox Christian chants, adding harmonies to the monophonic melodies,and also were creating original chants. It is widely accepted, that polyphony in Georgian church-singing came from the folk tradition. The so-called "new Georgian professional musical school" started in the second half of the 19th century. It was based on European classical musical language and classical musical forms (opera, symphony, etc.). The greatest representatives of this school of Georgian composers (Zakaria Paliashvili, Dimitri Arakishvili, Niko Sulkhanishvili) merged European musical language with the elements of Georgian traditional harmony and polyphony.
- 4. Giya Kancheli, Jansug Kakhidze, In his symphonies, Kancheli's musical language typically consists of slow scraps of minor-mode melody against long, subdued, anguished string discords. Kancheli saw world premieres of his works in Seattle, as well as with the New was a Georgian musician, composer, singer and conductor. In 1989, Kakhidze founded a new hall for symphony music in Tbilisi, which included the Tbilisi Center for Music and Culture.
- 5. Zacharia Paliashvili was a Georgian composer. Regarded as one of the founders of the Georgian classical music, his work is known for its eclectic fusion of folk songs and stories with 19th-century Romantic classical themes. He was the founder of the Georgian Philharmonic Society and later, the head of the Tbilisi State Conservatoire.
- 6. Revaz Lagidze Revaz Ilias son Lagidze was a 20th-century Georgian composer. He wrote a variety of compositions ranging from opera to symphonic works and film scores. Lagidze s notable compositions include his 1973 opera Lela and the song about Tbilisi, which remains popular in Georgia and Russia to this day. He was Artist of the Georgia SSR and a laureate of the USSR state Prize. Lagidze died in 1981 and was interred at the Didube Pantheon.
- 7. Sulkhan Tsintsadze Sulkhan was a Georgian composer known for his chamber music and his film scores. The young Tsintsadze was spotted by fellow Georgian composer Nikolai Narimanidze, who saw him as the future of Georgian national music at a time when the Soviet Union emphasized the contributions of national minority composers. For his contributions to the development of Georgian music, he was awarded the title of People's Artist of Georgia and the title of People Artist of the USSR, as well as the Stalin Prize, the Shota Rustaveli Prize and the Zakaria Paliashvili Prize.
- 8. Chakrulo Chakrulo is a Georgian polyphonic choral folk song. When Georgian vocal polyphony was recognized by UNESCO, as an intelligible Heritage masterpiece in 2001, chakrulo was cited as a prime example. Chakrulo was one of 29 musical compositions included on the Voyager Golden Records that were sent into space on Voyager 2 on 20 August 1977, and Voyager 1 on 5 september 1977.