Ja Urani Jutros Rano - Serbian Song

Flute by Dimitrios Dallas, vocals by Farya Faraji. This is a folk song from Serbia I previously covered in 2022, with the old version now available on my second channel, FaryaFarajisBoilingHub: https://www.youtube.com/@FaryaFarajisBoilingHub/videos This arrangement showcases the more archaic forms of music of the country as they would have been heard before the Westernisation of the music in the 19th century which introduced tonal harmony, chords, Western instruments such as the accordion, and largely removed the microtonal scales in favour of Western equal temperament. This rendition showcases the usages of instruments such as the saz family, as well as the mode not being in Western minor, but a microtonal relative largely comparable to Makam Huseyini. Instead of using Western a tonal harmonic progression, this arrangement employs the more archaic tradition of the Balkanic drone, closely related to Byzantine Ison, which maintains a drone on the tonic whilst dropping to the subtonic during moments of cadence. Lyrics: Ја урани јутрос рано, рано пре зоре Сусрела ме девојчица, брегом шеташе Ја јој назва' добро јутро, добра девојко Она мени одговара тужно, жалосно Мани ми се, младо момче, ја сам жалосна Имам драгог на далеко, у туђу земљу. English translation: I have come early this morning, early before the dawn A girl met me, she was walking on the hill I greeted her with 'good morning', good girl She replied to me sadly, sorrowfully: Leave me alone, young man, I am sorrowful I have my dear one far away, somewhere abroad