Sumerki; Сумерки (Twilight)

Song TitleSumerki; Сумерки (Search)
Title in EnglishTwilight (Search)
Composer(s):Serge Rachmaninoff (Рахманинов, Сергей Васильевич)
Author(s):Ivan Ivanovich Tkhorzhevsky (Тхоржевский, Иван Иванович (after Jean-Marie Guyau))
Keyword(s) & Features: Above; Alone; Appearing; Beauty; Before; Blue; Boundless; Bright; Calm; Coming; Connections; Contemplation; Creation; Dark; Darkening; Down; Evening; Excitement; Existence; Existing; Eyes; Gazing; Gentle; Harmony; Heads; High; Inclining; Intensity; Introspection; Light; Lights; Little; Long; Looking; Losing; Lost; Lowering; Moments; Musing; Mysterious; Nature; Night; Observing; Oneness; Oneness With Nature; Peace; Peaceful; Pensive; Pondering; Radiating; Raising; Rays; Reflecting; Reflection; Seeming; Sending; Silence; Silent; Sitting; Sky; Small; Soaring; Soft; Spiritual; Spirituality; Stars; Stillness; Swarms; Tender; Thinking; Thought; Thoughtful; Thoughts; Throngs; Trembling; Twilight; Unity; Universe; Viewing; Windows; World
First LineOna zadumalas'. Odna, pered oknom; Она задумалась. Одна, перед окном (Search)
Average Duration2:15 (Search)
Year of composition 1902 (Search)
Larger WorkДвенадцать романсов; Twelve Romances (Search)
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsEpicurean (Search)
Original LanguageFrench (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/3/37/IMSLP07291-Rachmaninov_-_Op._21,_No._3.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/6tfOlowHL7JdCjzuokyv83
Difficulty LevelMasters/YA (Search)
Catalog DesignationOp. 21 no. 3 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerHigh voice
Range: C4 - G#5 (Search)
Original KeyE minor (Search)
Dedicated ToNadezhda Ivanovna Zabela-Vrubel; Надія Іванівна Забіла-Врубель (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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