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Korça Serenade, Korca 2024 September O my Korca, how beautiful you are, the sun has set, dusk has cast the veil of night over you, and the freshness has revived all the people. The songs of the Korça Serenade are a symbol of the city of Korça, its “soul” and “heart”. The beginnings of this phenomenon date back a century and a half, somewhere around the end of the 19th century, and were initially adaptations or imitations of foreign serenades, mainly from Cephalonia in Greece, Italy, Spain, or even as far away as Argentina. They were adapted and enriched during practice by Korça artists. The serenade is in itself the expression of a feeling through song, but not only that. From time to time, we see it in the form of a spectacle, a mise-en-scene where the boy sings to the girl from under the window. The melody of these songs is monodic (one voice) or two, and in some cases takes choral form (up to four voices). We have here the example of the choir "Lira". Their themes are diverse. In accordance with the periods when they were sung, there are also social themes (the songs "Dua mënjeset e Majit", "S'kam ç'e dua passirëne" or humorous songs that hit on vices or phenomena inappropriate for the time, etc.) The lyrics of the serenade songs were written mainly by the creators of the melodies (to mention only a few of them, because there are many) such as: Petro Dula, the sisters Olga and Dhimitra Maliqari, Vasilika Bimbli, Ligoraq Qano, Petrika and Naum Tërova etc. Poets or intellectuals of the time such as: Asdreni, Kristaq Cepa, etc. Serenade lyrics were also written by poets or intellectuals of the time such as: Asdreni, Kristaq Cepa, etc. Even music has its own professionals who composed it, such as: Thoma Nasi, Kristo Kono and later Abaz Hajro, Mihallaq Andrea, etc. The serenade was sung mainly by boys (men). We mention here various groups such as: Qirinxhinjtë, Zabunët, Bimbllarët, Peleshët and many other groups. #serenatakorcare #korce #albania