Odd request: help figuring out notes, please

Whistle
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Hello, hello! Being so pathetically inept in all things music as I am, and unable to carry a tune in a bucket, I’m a little lost and I am hoping that some very kind soul will be able to help. I’m going to be telling a story in which I attempt to sing a couple lines from a Russian folk song. I want to practice the notes by playing them on my whistle, but my usual method of using a MIDI through a notation program isn’t working because I can’t find a MIDI of the song.

Is anyone here able to help me with any of the following:

  1. Tell me what notes to play for lines seven and eight, highlighted below?
  2. Help me find a MIDI of the song so that I can put it in my notation program?
  3. Point me towards sheet music for the song?

Videos of the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTsCAB6d3yE&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl2lCQv9sAI
This one has recorders playing along. The song starts at 1:30. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4ox5ESwdD0

  • Song lyrics
    Russian: Во кузнице / Transliteration: Vo kuznitse
    1 Во кузнице, во кузнице. / Vo kooznitsye, vo kooznitsye.
    2 Во кузнице молодые кузнецы, / Vo kooznitsye molodiye kooznyetsi,
    3 Во кузнице молодые кузнецы. / Vo kooznitsye molodiye kooznyetsi.
    4 Они куют, они куют. / Oni kooyoot, oni kooyoot.
    5 Они куют, приколачивают, / Oni kooyoot, prikolachivayoot,
    6 К себе Дуню приговаривают. / K syebye Doonyoo prigovarivayoot.
    7 Пойдем, пойдем, Дуня, пойдем, пойдем, Дуня. / Poydyem, poydyem, Doonya, poydyem, poydyem, Doonya.
    8 Пойдем, Дуня, во лесок, во лесок, / Poydyem, Doonya, vo lyesok, vo lyesok,
    9 Сорвем, Дуня, лопушок, лопушок. / Sorvyem, Doonya, lopooshok, lopooshok.
    10 Сошьем, сошьем Дуне, / Sosh’yem, sosh’yem Doonye,
    11 Сошьем, сошьем Дуне. / Sosh’yem, sosh’yem Doonye.
    12 Сошьем Дуне сарафан, сарафан, / Sosh’yem Doonye sarafan, sarafan,
    13 Сошьем Дуне сарафан, сарафан. / Sosh’yem Doonye sarafan, sarafan.
    14 Носи, носи, Дуня, / Nosi, nosi, Doonya,
    15 Носи, носи, Дуня. / Nosi, nosi, Doonya.
    16 Носи, Дуня, не марай, не марай, / Nosi, Doonya, nye maray, nye maray,
    17 По праздникам одевай, одевай. / Po prazdnikam odyevay, odyevay.
    18 Во кузнице, во кузнице. / Vo kooznitsye, vo kooznitsye.
    19 Во кузнице молодые кузнецы, / Vo kooznitsye molodiye kooznyetsi,
    20 Во кузнице молодые кузнецы. / Vo kooznitsye molodiye kooznyetsi.
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I hear something like this, written for D whistle, but sung in different keys, like in C major or D major:
http://softflow.org/music/Tunebook/TheBlacksmith-RussianSong

X:1
T: The Blacksmith - Russian Song
M: 3/4
K: G major
d2 B2 G2 | c2 BA G2 | d2 B2 G2 | e2 dc B2 |
dd cc BB | AA dA B2 | dd cc BB | AA dF G2 |]
"Variation"d2 B2 G2 | c2 BA G2 | d2 B2 G2 | g2 fe d2 |
dd cc BB | AA dd B2 | dd cc BB | AA dF G2 |]

(Variation from this children’s performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM4J9X6BWP4 )

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You are AMAZING!! THANK YOU!

I can’t get the change tempo feature to work to be able to slow it down. The note on -sok is the one that’s really throwing me and that children’s video is the only one that goes up there like it does. My voice doesn’t do that! lol

Here’s another one with a child singing so it is much slower. Would you be able to tell me what the man does for the vo lyesok notes? (I’m sure you noticed that it is the same notes repeating every two lines so the end of any of the odd number lines would work.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8sm4KtO2DE

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You mean the extra note, because of the extra syllable (I don’t speak or understand Russian!)? An extra B in the G major notation, maybe sung even shorter than a dotted notation:

dd cc BB | A>B dA B2 | dd cc BB | A>B dF G2 |]

(added to my score http://softflow.org/music/Tunebook/TheBlacksmith-RussianSong )

The last youtube clip you linked goes well to play along in C major on a G whistle.

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Please, this doesn’t rank as an odd request. This barely ranks as a request. Now an odd request would be:
May I please have the notation for this song? I will be playing this tune while traveling on a train flatcar going 45 mph and will be passing the grandstand during the final 8 notes of the first verse and would like to still be in tune, so please take the Doppler effect into account when providing the notation. Now that would MAYBE be an odd request.

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And the fact that the young Dunya is being swayed by the smiths, smiths, oh the smiths. :smiley:

Our good old Slav songs… :tomato: