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Sud'ba; Судьба (Fate)
Song Title
Sud'ba; Судьба (
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Title in English
Fate (
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Composer(s):
Serge Rachmaninoff (Рахманинов, Сергей Васильевич)
Author(s):
A. N. Apukhtin (Alekseĭ Nikolaevich; Апухтин, Алексей Николаевич)
Author Underrepresented Group
LGBTQ+ (
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Keyword(s) & Features:
Agitation
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Alarming
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Alarms
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All
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Alone
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Already
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Anticipation
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Anxiety
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Beating
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Behind
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Being
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Bliss
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Bound
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Boys
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Bushes
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Celebrating
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Celebrations
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Chance
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Chances
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Chasing
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Comforting
;
Coming
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Communicating
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Continuing
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Contrast: Hope vs. Despair
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Contrast: Innocence vs. Experience
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Contrast: Life vs. Death
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Crutches
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Darkening
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Day
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Destiny
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Dire
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Doom
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Dread
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Dreading
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Dreams
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Earth
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Ending
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Enough
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Evening
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Evil
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Faces
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Falling
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Fame
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Fatalism
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Fate
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Fear
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Fearful
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Fearing
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Fears
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Feasting
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Feasts
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Fields
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Filling
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Finished
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Finishing
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Flowing
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Following
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Foreboding
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Fortune
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Fortunes
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Friends
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Frightening
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Full
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Gathering
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Gazing
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Gentle
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Giving Up
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Going
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Grains
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Grief
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Grim
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Groves
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Guests
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Hair
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Hand in hand
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Hands
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Happiness
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Happy
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Harvesting
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Hearts
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Hitting
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Hopelessness
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Hungry
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Impermanence
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Inevitability
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Inevitable
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Instants
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Interrupting
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Intruding
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Keeping
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Kisses
;
Knocking
;
Lads
;
Lasting
;
Learning
;
Lights
;
Living
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Long
;
Long Time
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Looking
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Love
;
Loving
;
Lucky
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Mad
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Madness
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Malice
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Many
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Meaning
;
Meeting
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Men
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Merry
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Metaphor: Fate as Crone
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Misery
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Mortal
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Mortals
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Mute
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New
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Night
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Nightingales
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Noisy
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One
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Others
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Pale
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People
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Personification: Fate
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Places
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Pleasure
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Pleasures
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Poor
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Pounding
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Pouring
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Powerlessness
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Pursuing
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Rage
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Raging
;
Rain
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Raining
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Rapture
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Reality
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Reaping
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Rewards
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Riches
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Ringing
;
Seeing
;
Sentinels
;
Sentries
;
Setting
;
Silencing
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Silent
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Single
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Sky
;
Snow
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Soft
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Solemn
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Somber
;
Someone
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Songs
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Spelling
;
Starving
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Sudden
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Surrendering
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Sweethearts
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Taking
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Tapping
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Terrible
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Threats
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Time
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Together
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Trembling
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Trepidation
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Trouble
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Turning
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Twilight
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Two
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Vanquishing
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Walking
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Watching
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Wherever
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Whirling
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White
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Whole
;
Windows
;
Wine
;
Youth
;
Youthful
First Line
S svojej pokhodnoju kljukoj; С своей походною клюкой (
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Average Duration
7:00 (
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Year of composition
1899 - 1900
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Link to English Text Online
https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=25402
Larger Work
Двенадцать романсов; Twelve Romances (
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Musical Form
Ballad (
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Original Language
Russian (
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Score Source
https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/3/3d/IMSLP07289-Rachmaninov_-_Op._21,_No._1.pdf
Audio Source
https://open.spotify.com/track/2JOrQpRYrpTr4ugrXnPM8f
Difficulty Level
Masters/YA (
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Catalog Designation
Op. 21 no. 1 (
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Voice part suggested by composer
Bass
Range:
Ab2 - E4 (
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Original Key
C minor (
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Dedicated To
Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin; Фёдор Иванович Шаляпин (
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Notes
Subtitled "K Pyatoy Simfonii Betkhovena" (К Пятой Симфонии Бетховена); "On Beethoven's Fifth Symphony" (
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Orchestra and voice?
Yes (
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Sources Cited
Rachmaninoff's complete songs: A companion with texts and translations. (2014). Choice Reviews Online, 52(02), 52-0595. (
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Contributor
MRH , Morgan Horning (
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