Ne ver' mne, drug!; Не верь мне, друг! (Believe it not!; Don't believe me, friend!)
Song Title | Ne ver' mne, drug!; Не верь мне, друг! (Search) |
Title in English | Believe it not!; Don't believe me, friend! (Search) |
Composer(s): | Pyotr Il′yich Tchaikovsky (Пётр Ильич Чайковский) |
Composer Underrepresented Group | LGBTQ+ (Search) |
Author(s): | Graf Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (Толсто́й, Алексе́й Константи́нович) |
Keyword(s) & Features: | Addressee: Lover; Assurance; Before; Beloved; Comforting; Commanding; Continuing; Convincing; Disbelief; Distrust; Ebbing; Encouraging; Far away; Fickleness; Flowing; Friends; Full; Inconstancy; Indecision; Instructing; Invigorating; Land; Longing; Loud; Lovers; Loving; Metaphor: Love as Sea; Metaphor: Sea as Lover; Overwhelming; Passage of Time; Passion; Passionate; Past; Ready; Receding; Renewal; Renewing; Repeating; Returning; Running; Rushing; Saying; Seas; Self; Shores; Surrendering; Torment; Trouble; Turmoil; Waves; Yearning |
First Line | Ne ver' mne drug, kogda v izbytke gorja; Не верь мне друг, когда в избытке горя (Search) |
Average Duration | 4:00 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1869 (Search) |
Link to English Text Online | https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=93497 |
Larger Work | Шесть романсов; Six Romances (Search) |
Musical Form | Ternary (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/e2/IMSLP19043-PMLP09793-Tchaik_TH093.pdf |
Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/0Xc3S0pgnGILWbwhz4boX6?si=EOEJ-qzVQcewNGfcqEZiGQ |
Difficulty Level | Masters/YA (Search) |
Catalog Designation | Op. 6 no. 1 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | High voice |
Range: | C#4 - F#5 (Search) |
Original Key | C# minor (Search) |
Dedicated To | Aleksandra Menshikova; Александра Меншикова (Search) |
Sources Cited | https://www.worldcat.org/title/tchaikovskys-complete-songs-a-companion-with-texts-and-translations/oclc/46835585; http://en.tchaikovsky-research.net/pages/Main_Page (Search) |
Contributor | MRH , Morgan Horning (Search) |