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Vocals and arrangement by Farya Faraji, the painting is “Battle of Grunwald“ by Jan Matejko. Bogurodzica is a Polish, medieval Catholic hymn composed somewhere between the 10th and 13th centuries, with its likely author being Saint Adalbert of Prague. Though originally a liturgical hymn, it soon evolved into a battle chant used by Polish warriors, and was chanted on the 15th of July 1410 during the Battle of Grunwald by Polish knights allied to Lithuania prior to their engagement against the Teutonic Order. Since then, it was used for centuries as a battle hymn. With this in mind, I decided to arrange and orchestrate the hymn with both aspects in mind; both as a liturgical one and a battle one. I tried to go for as historically accurate a rendition as possible for an early 14th century Polish palette: all the instruments were used at the time in Poland and are all used, to my knowledge, in accordance with historical accuracy. Central among the instruments are the hurdy-gurdy, called Lira kor
