Ditja! Kak cvetok ty prekrasna; Дитя! Как цветок ты прекрасна (Like blossom dew-freshen'd to gladness; Child! you are as fair as a flower)
Song Title | Ditja! Kak cvetok ty prekrasna; Дитя! Как цветок ты прекрасна (Search) |
Title in English | Like blossom dew-freshen'd to gladness; Child! you are as fair as a flower (Search) |
Composer(s): | Serge Rachmaninoff (Рахманинов, Сергей Васильевич) |
Author(s): | Heinrich Heine |
Keyword(s) & Features: | Admiring; Alive; Asking; Beautiful; Beauty; Bright; Children; Dear; Death; Fair; Faith; Flowers; Forever; Future; Glad; God; Hands; Happy; Heads; Heartache; Innocence; Laying; Looking; Loss of Innocence; Love; Melancholy; Metaphor: Beauty as Flowers; Metaphor: Lover as Flower; Prayers; Praying; Protecting; Protection; Pure; Purity; Sickness; Small; Souls; Touching; Worry |
First Line | Ditja, kak cvetok ty prekrasna; Дитя, как цветок ты прекрасна (Search) |
Average Duration | 2:00 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1893 (Search) |
Link to English Text Online | https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=23792 |
Larger Work | Шесть романсов; Six Romances (Search) |
Musical Form | Modified strophic (Search) |
Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Young Germany (Search) |
Original Language | German (Search) |
Score Source | http://ks4.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usimg/9/97/IMSLP07155-Rachmaninov_-_Op._8,_No._2.pdf |
Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/413Fag4uNLI6C8pNDfm0zH |
Difficulty Level | Masters/YA (Search) |
Catalog Designation | Op. 8 no. 2 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | Middle voice |
Range: | D4 - F5 (Search) |
Original Key | Eb Major (Search) |
Dedicated To | Mikhail Akimovich Slonov; Михаил Акимович Слонов (Search) |
Sources Cited | Rachmaninoff's complete songs: A companion with texts and translations. (2014). Choice Reviews Online, 52(02), 52-0595. (Search) |
Contributor | MRH , Morgan Horning (Search) |