{"id":136773,"date":"2022-03-27T13:03:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T17:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/?post_type=product&#038;p=136773"},"modified":"2024-03-25T12:30:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T16:30:49","slug":"plywe-kacza","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/all-music\/artists\/alina-bzhezhinska\/plywe-kacza\/","title":{"rendered":"Plywe Kacza (The Duckling Swims)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Learn how to play &#8220;Plywe Kacza&#8221;:<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/697431907?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>More about \u201cPlywe Kacza\u201d<\/h2>\n<h4>from Alina Bzhezhinska:<\/h4>\n<p>The Ukrainian traditional song \u201cPlywe Kacza\u201d translates literally to \u201cthe duckling swims.\u201d The lyrics are a dialogue between a mother and a son going off to war. As long as there have been wars, there have been sad songs about war and losing children or loved ones to the devastation of war.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMy dear mother, what will happen to me if I die in a foreign land?\u201d\u00a0\u201cWell, my dearest, you will be buried by other people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I made the harp arrangement for this song in 2014 when I was praying for peace in Ukraine. Now this song sounds very important again. I pray for peace, and I would like the harpists from around the world to join me.<\/p>\n<h2>More about Alina Bzhezhinska:<\/h2>\n<p>Harpist and composer Alina Bzhezhinska was born into a Ukrainian-Polish family in Lviv, Ukraine, where she began her classical training. She went on to study at the F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland and at the University of Arizona in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alina Bzhezhinska&#8217;s arrangement of the Ukrainian folk song &#8220;Plywe Kacza&#8221; is for solo lever or pedal harp and includes versions for advanced, intermediate, and advanced-beginner levels. Harp Column Music is currently offering this sheet music free of charge, with an encouragement to donate to Bzhezhinska&#8217;s fundraiser to support Ukraine.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hipharpcollective.com\/ukrainedonate\" class=\"button secondary is-secondary is-medium\"  >\n\t\t<span>donate now<\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n\n<p>Learn how to play this song in an accompanying lesson at <a href=\"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/academy\/learn-a-ukrainian-tune-2\/\">Harp Column Academy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pages to print:\u00a0<\/em>10<\/p>\n<p><em>Note:<\/em>\u00a0This piece is formatted for A4 paper size; use the settings in your printer dialog box to get the best fit for your paper size.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":136983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[8235],"product_tag":[477],"class_list":["post-136773","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-alina-bzhezhinska","product_tag-harp-solo","pa_artist-alina-bzhezhinska","pa_composer-traditional","pa_genre-folk-traditional","pa_harp-type-harp-lever","pa_instrumentation-harp-solo","pa_level-advanced","pa_level-advanced-beginner","pa_level-intermediate","pa_nationality-other-european","first","instock","downloadable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"exclude_global_add_ons":[],"addons":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/136773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=136773"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=136773"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=136773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}