Noch' pechal'na; Ночь печальна (Night is mournful)
| Song Title | Noch' pechal'na; Ночь печальна (Search) |
| Title in English | Night is mournful (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Serge Rachmaninoff (Рахманинов, Сергей Васильевич) |
| Author(s): | Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (Бунин, Иван Алексеевич) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Alone; Away; Brimming; Considering; Contemplating; Contemplation; Deserted; Destiny; Difficult; Distance; Distant; Dreaming; Dreams; Empty; Expressing; Faltering; Far; Fate; Filling; Flickering; Future; Hearts; Internal; Introspection; Isolation; Journeying; Journeys; Lights; Loneliness; Lonely; Long; Love; Melancholy; Metaphor: Night as Dreams; Metaphor: Physical Distance as Emotional Distance; Mournful; Mourning; Night; Paths; Pondering; Questioning; Questions; Quests; Reflecting; Reflection; Reflections; Remote; Removed; Sad; Sadness; Seeking; Silent; Sojourning; Soliloquy; Solitary; Solitude; Sorrow; Sorrowful; Sorrowing; Sorrows; Steppes; Striving; Struggling; Summoning; Thinking; Thought; Thoughts; Traveling; Troubled; Trudging; Trying; Voyages; Wandering; Ways; Wide |
| First Line | Noch' pechal'na, kak mechty moi...; Ночь печальна, как мечты мои... (Search) |
| Average Duration | 2:15 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1906 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=92139 |
| Larger Work | Пятнадцать романсов; Fifteen Romances (Search) |
| Musical Form | Ternary (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Realism (Search) |
| Original Language | Russian (Search) |
| Score Source | https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/7/7c/IMSLP07366-Rachmaninov_-_Op._26,_No._12.pdf |
| Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/5KR1qggOIrefj6GNXWCpDI |
| Difficulty Level | Masters/YA (Search) |
| Catalog Designation | Op. 26 no. 12 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | High voice |
| Range: | E4 - F#5 (Search) |
| Original Key | B minor (Search) |
| Dedicated To | Мария Семёновна Керзина и Аркадий Михайлович Керзин ; Maria Semyonovna Kerzina and Arkady Mikhailovich Kerzin (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) |