If the song was written in bardez, please explain Choi sp (see in Salcete) as opposed to Poi in Bardez? I think this song was written in Salcete, if you can explain the discrepancy....hmmm
On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 at 17:11, Paul p <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dekhnnis are often called "The Song of The Dancing Girl" (kolvont), > and here a couple of these beautiful nymphs approach the boatman to > ferry them across the river for Damu's wedding. This extortionate > worthy baulks on one pretext or the other, refusing their offers of > jewellery, flowers, etc, until satiated by a kiss! > > no progenitation here! > > This is the most famous Dekhnni (a semi-classical Goan dance form), > composed by Carlos Eugenio Ferreira of Corjuem, Aldona in 1887 and > published, with the help of his brilliant pianist brother Eduardo, > in Paris in 1895, as `The Balladas de Concan'. Tipografia Rangel > subsequently brought it out in Goa three decades later in 1926. > -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
