K detjam; К детям (To the children)

Song TitleK detjam; К детям (Search)
Title in EnglishTo the children (Search)
Composer(s):Serge Rachmaninoff (Рахманинов, Сергей Васильевич)
Author(s):Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov (Хомяков, Алексей Степанович)
Keyword(s) & Features: Addressee: Child; All; Almighty; Around; Asking; Asleep; Beds; Being; Beloved; Beseeching; Blessing; Carefree; Caring; Childish; Children; Coming; Comparing; Comparisons; Contrast; Contrast: Joy vs. Grief; Contrast: Joy vs. Sadness; Contrast: Joy vs. Sorrow; Contrast: Life vs. Death; Contrast: Past vs. Present; Crosses; Crushing; Dark; Darkness; Day; Death; Empty; Fatherhood; Fathering; God; Going; Grace; Grief; Guardians; Happy; Hearts; Hope; Hoping; Hours; Imploring; Innocence; Joy; Joyous; Keeping; Lamps; Late; Life; Lights; Little; Living; Long; Loss; Loving; Memories; Midnight; Mortality; Motherhood; Mothers; No More; Now; Over; Painful; Parenthood; Parenting; Parents; Past; Peace; Prayers; Praying; Present; Pure; Purity; Raising; Rearing; Remembering; Rest; Resting; Rooms; Sad; Sadness; Seeing; Separation; Signs; Sleeping; Souls; Sweet; Sweetness; Thinking; Time; Watching
First LineByvalo, v glubokij polunochnyj chas; Бывало, в глубокий полуночный час (Search)
Average Duration3:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1906 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=123767
Larger WorkПятнадцать романсов; Fifteen Romances (Search)
Musical FormAABA (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsSlavophilia (Search)
Original LanguageRussian (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/3/3f/IMSLP576899-PMLP17702-Rachmaninoff_Op26.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/6GSOWzrOMcbYBMHSYjnkSG
Difficulty LevelMasters/YA (Search)
Catalog DesignationOp. 26 no. 7 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerMiddle voice
Range: E4 - F5 (Search)
Original KeyF Major (Search)
Dedicated ToМария Семёновна Керзина и Аркадий Михайлович Керзин ; Maria Semyonovna Kerzina and Arkady Mikhailovich Kerzin (Search)
NotesKhomyakov wrote this text after the death of his two infant sons; During the Soviet era, this song text was excised of all references to religion, replacing much of the text - some editions still utilize the modified text (Search)
Sources CitedRachmaninoff's complete songs: A companion with texts and translations. (2014). Choice Reviews Online, 52(02), 52-0595. (Search)
ContributorMRH , Morgan Horning (Search)
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