| Product ID | SON00000427 |
| Composer | Stefan de Hoogt |
| Duration | 05:45 min |
| Genre | Folk |
| Instrumentation | Brass band |
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Sword Dance
| SKU | SON00000427 |
| Composer | Stefan de Hoogt |
| Arranger | |
| Genre | Folk |
| Instrumentation | Brass band |
| Free description | Hopak for Brass Band |
| Grade | 4 |
| Duration | 05:45 min |
| Year | 2020 |
Program Notes
Hopak for Brass Band
Flankirovka is (loosely speaking) the art of spinning a Shaska.
A shaska is a traditional Cossack Sabre mainly used by the cavalry soldiers. It's a single edge sword with a slight curve, no guard, and a pretty heavy tip.
In the traditional Cossack military art, it was used in both single- and dualwielding. It's style comprised of very fast wrist movement, causing the blade(s) to spin rapidly. This was used for both offense and defense. Later it evolved into a dance, althought the traditional military arts are also still preserved.
It's mostly done on the same music also used for a Hopak.
This compostion is based on a traditional Cossack folk song 'Oysha ty Oshya', which loosely translates to 'Hup you Hup'. Oysha doesn't mean anything, but is a encouraging word, like 'Hup' or 'Go'.