Cherkesskaja pesnja; Черкесская песня (Circassian Song)

Song TitleCherkesskaja pesnja; Черкесская песня (Search)
Title in EnglishCircassian Song (Search)
Composer(s):Aleksandr Aljabjev (Аля́бьев, Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович)
Author(s):Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (Пу́шкин, Алекса́ндр Серге́евич)
Keyword(s) & Features: Canoes; Chechen; Children; Circassians; Cossack; Dancers; Danger; Darkness; Death; Dreaming; Drifting; Drowning; Falling; Fishes; Foreboding; Girls; Growing; Hallowed; Hearts; Heat; Helmets; Home; Humans; Hurrying; Kicking; Lances; Landscapes; Leaning; Legends; Lurking; Mountains; Nature; Nets; Night; Paddling; People; Rivers; Roaring; Russia; Safety; Sand; Screaming; Sentries; Singing; Sleeping; Songs; Sounds; Steel; Stillness; Stories; Strands; Streams; Tired; Towing; Traveling; Vigilance; Vignette; Warning; Wars; Watching; Water; Weather
First LineV reke bezhit gremuchij val (Search)
Year of composition 1829 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://faculty.washington.edu/jdwest/russ430/prisoner.pdf
Musical FormStrophic (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsNeoclassicism (Search)
Original LanguageRussian (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/3/34/IMSLP510621-PMLP827483-Alyabiev_Romances_1.pdf
Range: C#4 - F5 (Search)
Original KeyD minor (Search)
Dedicated ToV. P. Zavadovskyamu (Search)
Recommended Printed SourceAlyabev, Selected Romances and Songs; ISBN 978-5-7140-0332-5 (Search)
ContributorAL (Search)
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