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91Gurian traditional singer Vazha Gogoladze, who died recently during a tour ofParis, told us during the 1999 fieldwork (and repeated again in 2003 during our meetingin Melbourne) about the musical evenings when the members of such trio of “mastersingers” would create a new song or a new version of a traditional song. According toVazha’s words, that would usually happen around a table at night. “They would takesome food and wine, of course, but not much, because they mostly wanted to enjoysinging, not drinking. Then someone might have an idea for a song, so he would sing anew phrase. Others would join in, trying to harmonize and to continue the idea.Sometimes they would stop singing and start discussing what would be the best way togo in this or another section of the song. This process could go well into the morninghours, and as a result they would have a new song or a new version of an existing song,to sing publicly for the next public gathering” (personal communication from 5 August,2003). According to folklore tradition, a famous Gurian trio song with the atypical fortrio songs yodeling and amazing contrapuntal mastery “Adila”, must have been created asa result of one of such “musical night”, and was perfected by dawn. The main creativeforce that night was the brilliant Gurian singer (bass) Varlam Simonishvili (1884-1950),and the song is credited to him. Here is about the half of the song “Adila”:Ex. 35. Adila. Gurian trio song (first half) (Transcribed by Nino Tsitsishvili)