Songs and Dances of Death
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Songs and Dances of Death is a song cycle by Modest Mussorgsky that sets macabre, dramatic poems about encounters with Death to powerful, expressive music.
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
song cycle
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vocal composition ⓘ |
| composer | Modest Mussorgsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| compositionPeriod | 1870s ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Russia ⓘ |
| depicts |
Death as a drunken reveler
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Death as a field marshal ⓘ Death as a lover NERFINISHED ⓘ Death as a lullaby singer ⓘ |
| genre |
art song
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classical music ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
dark harmonic language
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dramatic declamation ⓘ expressive piano writing ⓘ through-composed songs ⓘ |
| hasReputation |
important cycle in Russian song literature
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one of Mussorgsky's major vocal works ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Russian folk song
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Russian literary tradition ⓘ |
| language | Russian ⓘ |
| movement |
Lullaby
NERFINISHED
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Serenade ⓘ The Field Marshal NERFINISHED ⓘ Trepak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movementOrder |
Lullaby is first
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Serenade is second ⓘ The Field Marshal is fourth ⓘ Trepak is third NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableArrangementBy | Dmitri Shostakovich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableArrangementType | orchestral arrangement ⓘ |
| notablePerformer |
Dmitri Hvorostovsky
NERFINISHED
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Feodor Chaliapin NERFINISHED ⓘ Galina Vishnevskaya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfSongs | 4 ⓘ |
| originalInstrumentation | voice and piano ⓘ |
| partOf | Russian art song repertoire ⓘ |
| style | late Romantic ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Death personified
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encounters with Death ⓘ |
| textAuthor | Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
Death
NERFINISHED
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dramatic ballad ⓘ macabre ⓘ |
| vocalType |
baritone
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bass ⓘ low voice ⓘ |
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