| Song Title | Uzh ty, niva moja; Уж ты, нива моя (Search)
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| Title in English | Oh Thou, my Field; Oh you, my field; Harvest of sorrow (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Serge Rachmaninoff (Рахманинов, Сергей Васильевич) |
| Author(s): | Graf Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (Толсто́й, Алексе́й Константи́нович) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Addressee: Fields; Addressee: Thoughts; Agriculture; Autumn; Bending; Burning; Cruelty; Crumbling; Decaying; Desolation; Despair; Despairing; Destruction; Ears; Earth; Emotions; Expressions; Falling; Far away; Farms; Fields; Folk music; Folk Song; Grains; Grass; Grief; Harvest; Lament; Lamenting; Life; Lives; Living; Melismas; Metaphor: Life as Field; Metaphor: Thoughts as Grains; Mowing; Nature; Overwhelming; Personification: Fields; Planting; Rotting; Ruin; Ruining; Ruins; Sadness; Scattering; Sorrow; Spoiling; Sprouting; Thoughts; Tossing; Tying; Waste; Wasting; Wind |
| First Line | Uzh ty, niva moja, nivushka; Уж ты, нива моя, нивушка (Search) |
| Average Duration | 4:15 (Search) |
| Year of composition |
1893 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=109632 |
| Larger Work | Шесть романсов; Six Romances (Search) |
| Musical Form | Modified strophic (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Romanticism (Search) |
| Original Language | Russian (Search) |
| Score Source |
https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/e/e7/IMSLP06982-Rachmaninov_-_Op._4,_No._5.pdf
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| Audio Source |
https://open.spotify.com/track/5wTHLzCFbiRcHZ6yFsQ2Mr?si=E6iZ7dB3QcGfm3sqqjvzUA
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| Difficulty Level | Masters/YA (Search) |
| Catalog Designation | Op. 4 no. 5 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | High voice |
| Range: | G4 - Bb5 (Search) |
| Original Key | D minor (Search) |
| Dedicated To | E. N. Lysikova (Search) |
| Sources Cited | Rachmaninoff's complete songs: A companion with texts and translations. (2014). Choice Reviews Online, 52(02), 52-0595. (Search) |
| Contributor | SHK/MRH (Search)
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