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Dulpod is a Goan dance song with quick rhythm and themes from everyday Goan life. The plural of dulpod in Konkani is dulpodam. The dulpod is a folk song, anonymous, freely improvised, and sometimes lacking in thematic unity. The tunes of the dulpod are usually in the six-eight measure, though the two-fourths are not uncommon.
The song was composed by Ulhas Buyao (Known as Goyem Shahir) at the time of the Goa Opinion Poll in 1967 in support of the anti-merger movement, of which Buyao was an important part. The lyrics were written by advocate and editor of the Konkani newspaper Sunaparant , Uday Bhembre , who was also part of the anti-merger movement.
Konkani song may be classified in four groups: one which draws on the more pristine form in music and verse, as in the fugdi or the dhalo; the second which blends western and native music but retains Konkani lyrics as in deknnis; the third which blends native and western music as well as language as in dulpod; and the fourth which has a marked ...
Mando (Goan Konkani: Mannddô) is a musical form that evolved during the 19th and 20th centuries among the Goan Catholics. It represents a meeting point of local Goan (Goa was a part of Portugal at that point of time) and western musical traditions. The music has elements of both Indian and western culture.
San Franciscu Xavier-a, tuji kudd-i Goeam xara" ('Saint Francis Xavier, your body lay at the city of Goa') is Konkani hymn in tribute to Saint Francis Xavier by Raimundo Florianop Feliciano Barreto during the 19th century in Goa, India.
One of the best known Dekhnnî songs is "Hanv Saiba Poltoddi Voitam" by Carlos Eugenio Ferreira (1860–1932) first published in Paris in 1895 and then in Goa in 1926 by Tipografia Rangel. The song was adapted by Raj Kapoor as Na mangoon sona chandi in his Hindi movie Bobby . [ 1 ]
Fernandes made his initial foray onto the theatrical stage in a tiatr (a form of Goan musical theatre) produced by Saib Rocha.In this production, Fernandes assumed the role of a lady in Rocha's Konkani adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, alongside Miss Carlota and J. P. Souzalin as the main protagonists.
Top Ranks (Goan Band in Kuwait) Stepping Stones (Goan Band in Kuwait) Goans may have had an influence, and indeed a band or two, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A Gomes (perhaps the father of Prof. Alberto Gomes) was a pianist there. Theresinha Gonsalves from my neighbourhood was a pianist in Malaysia for many years.