Pesn' Zemfiry; Песнь Земфиры (Zemfira's Song)
| Song Title | Pesn' Zemfiry; Песнь Земфиры (Search) |
| Title in English | Zemfira's Song (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Pyotr Il′yich Tchaikovsky (Пётр Ильич Чайковский) |
| Composer Underrepresented Group | LGBTQ+ (Search) |
| Author(s): | Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (Пу́шкин, Алекса́ндр Серге́евич) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Angry; Another; Betrayal; Betrayed Love; Betraying; Bold; Boldness; Brazen; Burning; Caring; Cheating; Comparing; Comparisons; Confessing; Confessions; Contrast: Young vs. Old; Conversation; Couples; Cruel; Cruel Love; Cruelty; Cuckolds; Daring; Day; Despising; Dialogue; Disdain; Disdain for Love; Dying; Fear; Fire; Firm; Fresh; Gypsies; Hot; Husbands; Infidelity; Insulting; Insults; Liking; Loathing; Love; Lovers; Loving; Multiple Speakers; Myself; Old; Possessing; Quiet; Relationships; Revealing; Revelations; Singing; Smoky; Sneering; Songs; Speaker: Aleko; Speaker: Zemfira; Speaking; Spring; Stabbing; Summer; Swords; Tales; Talk; Talking; Telling; Tents; Tired; Two Speakers; Understanding; Unfaithfulness; Why; Wild; Wives; Young; Zemfira |
| First Line | (Spoken) Aleko: Ili pod sen'ju dymnoj kushchi; Алеко: Или под сенью дымной кущи; (Sung) Zemfira: Staryj muzh, groznyj muzh; Земфира: Старый муж, грозный муж (Search) |
| Average Duration | 1:45 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1850 - 1860 (Search) late, or, early; unknown |
| Musical Form | Rounded binary (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Romanticism; Realism (Search) |
| Original Language | Russian (Search) |
| Score Source | https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/0/02/IMSLP19045-PMLP44961-Tchaik_TH090.pdf |
| Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/6aJ5LfUgQODSV6rZ4OSZNL?si=Z0gjNsgoTFWJEMZVnQ_dNg |
| Difficulty Level | Masters/YA (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Middle or High Voice |
| Range: | E4 - A5 (Search) |
| Original Key | A minor (Search) |
| Notes | From Pushkin's narrative poem Cygany; Цыганы (Gypsies), perhaps most famously set as Rachmaninoff's opera, Aleko. There are optional spoken lines by Aleko and Zemfira throughout this romance. (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) |