Social science  Music  )  Stravinsky's Rite of Spring stole the bass melody that accompanies the performance of this work's "duck song," and other pieces that mention animals include the Nurse's ill-fated attempt to cheer Princess Xenia with a song about a flea, which is followed by her brother's ditty about an owl.
Social science  Music  )  Stravinsky's Rite of Spring stole the bass melody that accompanies the performance of this work's "duck song," and other pieces that mention animals include the Nurse's ill-fated attempt to cheer Princess Xenia with a song about a flea, which is followed by her brother's ditty about an owl. The tramps Varlaam and Missail [*] make a discovery at an inn near the Lithuanian border that disproves Pimen's claims of foul play. Originally turned down because it had no leading female role, its composer added a new act, set in Poland, that features the sinister Rangoni advising the scheming Marina who then declares her love for the young monk Grigori, a man it turns out is really named Dimitri. Featuring a scene during which the title character hears the insistent tick of a clock as he goes crazy and sees dead babies, FTP, identify this work about an unscrupulous Czar, an opera by Mussorgsky.
Social science  Music  )  Stravinsky's Rite of Spring stole the bass melody that accompanies the performance of this work's "duck song," and other pieces that mention animals include the Nurse's ill-fated attempt to cheer Princess Xenia with a song about a flea, which is followed by her brother's ditty about an owl.
{Boris Godunov}