Dindikan
from Tatlong Awiting Pambata (Three Philippine Children’s Songs)
SATB div. a cappella
3:50 approx.
Dindikan is a compositional adaptation based on the theme of a traditional children’s song from the Maguindanao region of the Philippines. It is one out of three pieces in Tatlong Awiting Pambata (Three Philippine Children’s Songs). The other two are Ako Ay May Lobo (I Have a Balloon) and Ang Alibangbang (The Butterfly)
Tatlong Awiiting Pambata was commissioned by Anna Abeleda-Piquero for the University of Visayas Chorale.
DINDIKAN
Trad. Philippine folk
Dindikan,
O papanok akobo,
Namunot ako sa sambar
ka endo kangganatan, ikalido na ginawa.
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Dindikan,
If I were a bird,
I’d fly with the wind,
So I’ll leave all the sorrows behind.