|
Slzy A úsmevy, Op.25
''Slzy a úsmevy, ''Op.25 (Tears and Smiles) is a 1909 song cycle on Slovak poetry by Slovak composer Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský. It is among his best known vocal compositions. The songs were first published in 1912. Songs *1. Prsteň ("A ring") to a text by Janko Jesenský *2. Pieseň ("A song") Ivan Krasko *3. Vesper Dominicae - Ivan Krasko *4. Letí Havran, Letí ("Fly crow, fly") Svetozár Hurban Vajanský *5. Nôžka ("The little leg") Svetozár Hurban Vajanský *6. Uspávanka ("Lullaby") from the publication ''Nový Nápev Na Prostonárodné Slová'' *7. Keď Na Deň Zvoniť Mali ("When in the morning rings the bell") Ivan Krasko "Keď na deň zvoniť mali, vyšli sme, za prítmia, za šera, verili, že snáď k večeru vráti sa dôvera. A celý, cel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Cycle
A song cycle () is a group, or cycle (music), cycle, of individually complete Art song, songs designed to be performed in sequence, as a unit.Susan Youens, ''Grove online'' The songs are either for solo voice or an ensemble, or rarely a combination of solo songs mingled with choral pieces. The number of songs in a song cycle may be as brief as two songs or as long as 30 or more songs. The term "song cycle" did not enter lexicography until 1865, in Arrey von Dommer's edition of ''Koch’s Musikalisches Lexikon'', but works definable in retrospect as song cycles existed long before then. One of the earliest examples may be the set of seven Cantiga de amigo, Cantigas de amigo by the 13th-century Galicians, Galician jongleur Martin Codax. Jeffrey Mark identified the group of dialect songs 'Hodge und Malkyn' from Thomas Ravenscroft's ''The Briefe Discourse'' (1614) as the first of a number of early 17th-century examples in England. A song cycle is similar to a song collection, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |