# Songs and Dances of Death (A-flat, E-flat minor, D minor, C minor): Medium Voice, Orchestra Accompaniment, Full Score (Kalmus Vocal Library)

- **Brand:** Alfred Music
- **Price:** $35.00
- **Catalog:** alfred
- **Retailer:** alfred
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- **GTIN:** 9798892702171

## Summary

Full score for Modest Mussorgsky's 'Songs and Dances of Death' vocal cycle, orchestrated by Dmitri Shostakovich, featuring medium voice and orchestra accompaniment.

## Description

Songs and Dances of Death (Pesni i plyaski smerti), composed in the mid-1870s, is widely considered the finest song cycle by Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881). The composer selected four poems penned by his distant cousin, Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov, each depicting death as a personified agent of relief from affliction. Mussorgsky passed away before completing a full orchestral version of the work. This version, scored by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1962, was written for Russian soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, to whom he dedicated it. Reprint edition. Movements: 1. Lullaby/Berceuse [Wiegenlied]; 2. Serenade [Wiegenlied/Ständchen]; 3. Trepak [Tanzlied]; 4. Field Marshal [Der feldherr/Feldherr tod]. Instrumentation: 2(2nd d.Picc).2.2(2nd d.BCl).2(2nd d.CBsn): 4.2.3.1: Timp.Perc(2): Hp: Str (9-8-7-6-5 in set): Solo [Voice].

## Categories

- **Categories:** Shipped

## Enrichment

- **Type:** sheet music
- **Type Synonyms:** musical score, vocal score
- **Tags:** full score, orchestra accompaniment, vocal cycle
- **Category Path:** Media > Sheet Music
- **Music genre:** Classic, Opera, Vocal music
- **Canonical Brand:** Alfred Music

## Images

- ![Image 1](https://cdn.octogen.ai/9b2a64a810fa62ecdf8db63b242cdf34/553e606152c67948cce7cd7685d71ce7.png)

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