Pesn' Min'ony; Песнь Миньоны (Mignon's song)
| Song Title | Pesn' Min'ony; Песнь Миньоны (Search) |
| Title in English | Mignon's song (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Pyotr Il′yich Tchaikovsky (Пётр Ильич Чайковский) |
| Composer Underrepresented Group | LGBTQ+ (Search) |
| Author(s): | Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (Тютчев, Фёдор Иванович (after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Abroad; Allowing; Asking; Avalanches; Away; Azure; Bays; Belonging; Blooming; Broods; Burning; Castaways; Children; Cliffs; Climbing; Columns; Comfort; Connecting; Connection to Nature; Country; Crashing; Darling; Deep; Dense; Desires; Desiring; Distance; Distant; Domes; Dragons; Dreaming; Dreams; Dwelling; Evoking; Exile; Exiles; Exiling; Falling; Familiar; Familiarity; Far; Fatherland; Fathers; Fire; Gazing; Going; Golden; Gorges; Green; Growing; Guardians; Halls; Happening; Heaven; Hiding; Home; Homeland; Homesick; Hometown; Hopes; Hoping; Households; Houses; Idols; Imagery; Images; Imagining; Invoking; Journeys; Knowing; Knowledge; Land; Lands; Laying; Leaves; Leaving Home; Legends; Lemons; Light; Longing; Marble; Memories; Mignon; Mists; Mountains; Mules; Music; Myrtles; Nations; Nature; Nostalgia; Nostalgic; Offspring; Oranges; Past; Paths; Peace; Peaceful; Personal History; Places; Poor; Pure; Rays; Recalling; Remembrance; Reminding; Reminiscing; Returning; Reverie; Roaring; Sad; Safety; Shining; Silent; Soil; Steep; Summits; Summoning; Together; Trails; Vaults; Water; Waters; Wishes; Wishing |
| First Line | Ty znajesh' kraj, gde mirt i lavr rastjot; Ты знаешь край, где мирт и лавр растёт (Search) |
| Average Duration | 4:45 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1874 - 1875 (Search) Winter |
| Link to English Text Online | https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=113761 |
| Larger Work | Шесть романсов; Six Romances (Search) |
| Musical Form | AABA (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Sturm und Drang; Innerlichkeit (Search) |
| Original Language | German (Search) |
| Score Source | https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/e/ef/IMSLP19051-PMLP44975-Tchaik_TH097.pdf |
| Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/4VTtNEd5F4fN6vEt9HQ686 |
| Difficulty Level | Masters/YA (Search) |
| Catalog Designation | Op. 25 no. 3 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | High voice |
| Range: | D4 - Gb5 (Search) |
| Original Key | Eb Major (Search) |
| Dedicated To | Maria Danilovna Kamenskaya; Мария Даниловна Каменская (Search) |
| Notes | translation of Goethe's Mignon song "Kennst du das Land? wo die Citronen blühn" ("Do you know the land where the lemons bloom") from Book 3 of Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (Search) |
| Sources Cited | https://www.worldcat.org/title/tchaikovskys-complete-songs-a-companion-with-texts-and-translations/oclc/46835585; http://en.tchaikovsky-research.net/pages/Main_Page (Search) |
| Contributor | MRH , Morgan Horning (Search) |