Nevicata

Song TitleNevicata (Search)
Composer(s):Ottorino Respighi
Author(s):Ada Negri
Author Underrepresented GroupWoman (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Admiring; Beauty; Calm; Circling; Dancing; Ended Relationships; Fading; Falling; Fields; Gardens; Ground; Hearts; Indifference; Introspection; Joking; Light; Love; Melancholy; Memories; Missing; Motionless; Nature; Oblivion; Observing; Paths; Peace; Personification: Snow; Pondering; Profound; Remembering; Returning; Roofs; Settling; Shapes; Silence; Sky; Sleeping; Snow; Snowflakes; Stillness; Stones; Streets; Thousand; Tired; Weather; White; Wide; Winter; World
First LineSui campi e sulle strade (Search)
Average Duration2:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1906 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=34073
Musical FormTernary (Search)
Original LanguageItalian (Search)
Score Source https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/113383
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9q922-4thE
Link to IPA Source https://www.ipasource.com/product/nevicata-2/
Catalog DesignationP. 65 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano or Tenor
Range: D#4 - G#5 (Search)
Original KeyEb Major (Search)
Dedicated ToAlla Signora Rosiua Giovannoni Zacchi Pedrazzi (Search)
NotesAlso available in lower key (Db Major). In an association which has all but marred her reputation, the poet, Negri, was favored by Benito Mussolini and his fascist regime, having been nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature, awarded the Mussolini Prize by the Royal Academy of Italy, and selected as the first woman member of the Academy at his behest. (Search)
ContributorAL (Search)
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