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Choral Music

Tchaka (SATB)

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Composer/Arranger

music by Sydney Guillaume

Instrumentation

for SATB Chorus and percussion

in Haitian Creole

Duration

4:40 minutes

Tchaka (SATB)
$3.50

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Policy

A minimum of 12 copies is required.

It is a breach of copyright law to make more copies than the amount purchased. Please order the number of copies needed for every member of the ensemble, including the conductor and the accompanist.

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Description

 

Tchaka is one of the most popular meals in Haitian cuisine. It’s a “melting pot” – a tasty mélange of different food products such as corn, beans with pork, and crustaceans. Likewise, Haitian folklore consists of a huge variety of rhythms and dances that when mixed together give birth to extraordinary works. Bon appétit and happy listening!


Preview Score on Issuu

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Translation of Haitian Creole text:

Turn up the fire! We are going to eat tchaka!

Turn up the fire, stir up the corn, don’t forget the salt pork,

We are going to eat a delicious tchaka.

We are going to cook up a mind-blowing stew.


At the sound of the three drums, everyone yells out hurray.

If we join together we can all move forward.

Let us enmesh in lovely harmony

A delicious homemade stew, a musical tchaka.


It’s a delicious homemade stew, a national tchaka,

A delicious homemade stew…

Turn up the fire! Turn up the fire!


*Yanvalou, Kontredans, Rabòday are amazing.

Roots music, oh yes, that’s good stuff.

Let’s stick together; side by side we can move forward.

Turn up the fire! Turn up the fire! The tchaka is cooking…


Description

 

Tchaka is one of the most popular meals in Haitian cuisine. It’s a “melting pot” – a tasty mélange of different food products such as corn, beans with pork, and crustaceans. Likewise, Haitian folklore consists of a huge variety of rhythms and dances that when mixed together give birth to extraordinary works. Bon appétit and happy listening!


Preview Score on Issuu

Click here

Translation of Haitian Creole text:

Turn up the fire! We are going to eat tchaka!

Turn up the fire, stir up the corn, don’t forget the salt pork,

We are going to eat a delicious tchaka.

We are going to cook up a mind-blowing stew.


At the sound of the three drums, everyone yells out hurray.

If we join together we can all move forward.

Let us enmesh in lovely harmony

A delicious homemade stew, a musical tchaka.


It’s a delicious homemade stew, a national tchaka,

A delicious homemade stew…

Turn up the fire! Turn up the fire!


*Yanvalou, Kontredans, Rabòday are amazing.

Roots music, oh yes, that’s good stuff.

Let’s stick together; side by side we can move forward.

Turn up the fire! Turn up the fire! The tchaka is cooking…


Guillaume, Sydney
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