Sred' shumnogo bala; Средь шумного бала (Amid the din of a ball)
| Song Title | Sred' shumnogo bala; Средь шумного бала (Search) |
| Title in English | Amid the din of a ball (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Pyotr Il′yich Tchaikovsky (Пётр Ильич Чайковский) |
| Composer Underrepresented Group | LGBTQ+ (Search) |
| Author(s): | Aleksey Konstantinovich, graf Tolstoy (Толсто́й, Алексе́й Константи́нович) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Alarms; Attracting; Attraction; Balls; Beautiful; Beauty; Catching; Chances; Dances; Dancing; Desires; Desiring; Distant; Dreaming; Dreams; Eyes; Falling Asleep; Features; Feminine; Figures; Flutes; Gazes; Gazing; Happy; Hearing; Hearts; Hiding; Hopeful; Hopes; Hours; Idols; Images; Imagining; In Love; Infatuation; Insomnia; Laughing; Laughter; Laying; Liking; Looking; Looks; Love at First Sight; Lovely; Loving; Meaning; Melancholy; Metaphor; Metaphor: Voice as Music; Metaphor: Voice as Waves; Music; Musical; Mysterious; Mystery; Night; Noises; Notes; Obsession; Parties; Pensive; Perfection; Playful; Playing; Pretty; Ringing; Sad; Seas; Seeing; Seeming; Sight; Simile; Slim; Societies; Solitary; Sounds; Speaking; Speeches; Swelling; Talking; Thinking; Tired; Unknowing; Vain; Voices; Waves; Women; Wonderful |
| First Line | Sred' shumnogo bala, sluchajno; Средь шумного бала, случайно (Search) |
| Average Duration | 2:30 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1878 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=117411 |
| Larger Work | Шесть романсов; Six Romances (Search) |
| Musical Form | Ternary (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Romanticism (Search) |
| Original Language | Russian (Search) |
| Score Source | https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/e/e8/IMSLP19056-PMLP44986-Tchaik_TH101.pdf |
| Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/0lmHvA9nLorWNWF3hU50Fk?si=mF_yIweISTWGIj2qibx2ig |
| Difficulty Level | College (Search) |
| Catalog Designation | Op. 38 no. 3 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Middle voice |
| Range: | B3 - E5 (Search) |
| Original Key | B minor (Search) |
| Dedicated To | Anatoly Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Анатолий Ильич Чайковский (Search) |
| Notes | the entirety of Op. 38 is dedicated to Tchaikovsky's younger brother, Anatoly Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Анатолий Ильич Чайковский (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 | SHK/MRH , Morgan Horning (Search) |