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Columbia Records, EMI Music: Keith Grant/The Seekers: 2:18 The Carnival Is Over: 1965 – – Tom Springfield (melody from a Russian folk song) Carry Me: 2022: Bruce Woodley – – – Michael Cristiano: 4.17 Chase a Rainbow (Follow Your Dream) 1967: Bruce Woodley – – Seekers Seen in Green: Columbia Records, EMI Music: Keith Grant/The ...
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The Marche slave, also Marche slav (French pronunciation: [maʁʃ(ə) slav]) in B-flat minor, Op. 31, is an orchestral tone poem by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky published in 1876. It was written to celebrate Russia's intervention in the Serbo-Ottoman War.
While the contributions of the Russian nationalistic group The Five were important in their own right in developing an independent Russian voice and consciousness in classical music, Tchaikovsky's formal conservatory training allowed him to write works with Western-oriented attitudes and techniques, showcasing a wide range and breadth of technique from a poised "Classical" form simulating 18th ...
The song had been recorded earlier as an Australian single on the 1964 album Hide and Seekers and appeared on the 1965 American debut, The New Seekers. In December 1966 they issued "Georgy Girl", which became their highest charting American hit when it reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on the Cashbox Top 100 in February 1967.
Here Tchaikovsky harnessed the harmonic, melodic and rhythmic quirks of Ukrainian folk music to produce an opening movement massive in scale, intricate in structure and complex in texture—what Brown calls "one of the most solid structures Tchaikovsky ever fashioned" [47] —and a finale that, with the folk song "The Crane" offered in an ever ...
Glinka uses the principle from folk song of allowing the musical structure to unfold around a thematic constant—or actually two constants, since he uses two folk songs. [10] He varies the background material surrounding these songs more than the songs themselves— orchestral color (timbre) , harmonization , counterpoint .
"The Carnival Is Over" is a song written by Tom Springfield, for the Australian folk pop group the Seekers. It is based on a Russian folk song from about 1883, adapted with original English-language lyrics. The song became the Seekers' signature recording, and the band customarily closed their concerts with it ever since its success in late 1965.
Sea Songs; Second Suite in F for Military Band; Serenade for Strings (Tchaikovsky) Six Studies in English Folk Song; Sonatina (Bartók) St Paul's Suite; String Quartet No. 1 (Tchaikovsky) Suite from Henry V; Suite paysanne hongroise; Symphony in E-flat (Stravinsky) Symphony No. 1 (Mahler) Symphony No. 1 (Tchaikovsky) Symphony No. 2 (Penderecki)