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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 .
Tchaikovsky's interest resulted in his Second Symphony, composed in 1872. Because Tchaikovsky used three Ukrainian folk songs to great effect in this work, it was nicknamed the "Little Russian" (Russian: Малороссийская, Malorossiyskaya) by Nikolay Kashkin, a friend of the composer as well as a well-known musical critic of Moscow. [9]
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 ...
Original cast in the Imperial Ballet's original production of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker, December 1892 "Tchaikovsky was made for ballet," writes musicologist David Brown [4] Before him, musicologist Francis Maes writes, ballet music was written by specialists, such as Ludwig Minkus and Cesare Pugni, "who wrote nothing else and knew all the tricks of the trade."
In the vigorous finale, Tchaikovsky incorporates a famous Russian folk song, "In the Field Stood a Birch Tree", as the secondary theme — firstly in A minor, the second time in B ♭ minor and then in D minor, which leads to the A ♭ phrase of the first movement, with the 'lightning bolts', with cymbals added, being much louder. The coda is ...
"Scherzo à la russe", Op. 1, No. 1, is part of the first published work of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1867, Two Pieces for Piano, Op. 1. It is based on a Russian folk tune in B-flat major, that the composer had earlier used in his first attempt to write a string quartet. [1]
Moreover—and this is what amazed contemporaries about the work—the music included folk songs and Russian national idioms, incorporating them into the drama. Glinka meant his use of folk songs to reflect the presence of popular characters in the opera, rather than an overt attempt at nationalism. [22] Nor do they play a major part in the ...
The 1977 film The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training uses a portion of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Also, the movie's theme song, James Rolleston's "Life is Lookin' Good," uses a variation of the music. Canadian progressive rock band Rush adopted the famous brass theme of 1812 Overture in their suite 2112, from their album of the same name ...