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Song
"Утушка луговая"
Utushka lugovaya
Language Russian English title "A Little Meadow Duck" Written Before 1791
[1]
Genre
Folk
Songwriter(s) Unknown
"Utushka lugovaya " (
Russian : Утушка луговая ,
lit. A Little Meadow Duck ) is an ancient Russian folk song.
Synopsis
A young woman or maiden, also called utushka lugovaya , spends a night in the wood (or in the meadow
[1] ), near a
willow . Several young men pass by and make several
gudocheks – each makes one for himself. The maiden asks the gudocheks not to tinkle, not to wake her (however, in some versions, her father
[1]
[2] ) up.
Historical background
According to Alexander Tereshchenko, ″Utushka lugovaya″ could be performed during traditional Russian marriage celebrations.
[3]
Pavel Svinyin wrote that the
Don Cossacks used the song in
matchmaking .
[4]
Some researchers consider that image ("Utushka lugovaya"/ "Young duck") as a traditional image of the young woman or bride.
[5]
[6]
Genre characteristics
A number of sources mention the song as a
plyasovaya
[7]
[3] or a
khorovodnaya .
[8]
Alexander Potebnja regards it – for its
time signature – as an example of the so-called summer or spring songs.
[7]
Settings and performance
Before 1792,
Vasily Pashkevich created for his third
opera a
theme based on the song.
[9]
[10] In the following two centuries, many composers (such as
P. I. Tchaikovsky ,
[11]
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ,
[12]
Anatoly Lyadov ,
[13]
Alexander Ivanov-Kramskoi
[12] ) arranged "Utushka lugovaya".
The song appeared in the
repertoires of
Lidia Ruslanova ,
[14]
Lyudmila Zykina ,
[15]
Alexandra Strelchenko ,
[16] and other famous Russian folk singers.
References
^
a
b
c
Иванъ Прачъ , ed. (1790).
Собранiе Народныхъ Рускихъ Пѣсенъ съ ихъ Голосами на Музыку положилъ Иванъ Прачъ (in Russian). Типографiя Горнаго училища. p. 83.
^ Николай Римскiй-Корсаковъ, ed. (1877).
Сборникъ русскихъ народныхъ пѣсенъ, составленный Н. А. Римскимъ-Корсаковымъ (in Russian). Imprimerie de musique de W. Bessel et Cie à St.-Petersbourg. pp. 54–55.
^
a
b Терещенко, Александр (20 February 2015).
Быт русского народа (in Russian). Vol. II (Свадьбы). Aegitas.
ISBN
9781772463576 .
^ Свиньинъ, Павелъ (1839).
Картины Россіи и бытъ разноплеменныхъ ея народовъ... (in Russian). p. 253.
^ Червинский, П. П. (1989). Т. В. Цивьян (ed.).
Семантический язык фольклорной традиции (in Russian).
Ростов-на-Дону . p. 13. {{
cite book }}
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link )
^ Зуева, Т. В. (2002).
Русский фольклор: Словарь-справочник (in Russian).
М. : Просвещение.
ISBN
9785090111348 .
^
a
b Потебня, А. А. (1883).
Объясненiя малорусских и сродных народных пѣсень (in Russian).
Варшава . pp. 234–236. {{
cite book }}
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link )
^ Лопатин, Н. М.; Прокунин, В. П, eds. (1956).
Русские народные лирические песни (in Russian). М.: Государственное музыкальное издательство.
^ Чешихинъ, Всеволодъ (1905).
Исторiя русской оперы (съ 1674 по 1903 г.) (in Russian).
С.-Петербургъ . p. 54.
ISBN
9785458368087 . {{
cite book }}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link )
^ Финдейзен, Н. Ф. (1928).
Очерки по истории музыки в России с древнейших времён до конца XVIII века (in Russian). Vol. II (issue 5). М.-
Л. p. 110.
ISBN
9785446038084 . {{
cite book }}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link )
^
Нотная летопись (in Russian). 1996.
^
a
b
Нотные издания в фондах Государственной библиотеки СССР имени В. И. Ленина (in Russian). 1978.
^ Иванов, Г. К. (1966).
Русская поэзия в отечественной музыке (до 1917 года): справочник (in Russian). Vol. I. Музыка.
^ Сафошкин В.Д.; Сафошкина Л.В, eds. (2000).
Сердце, тебе не хочется покоя (in Russian). М.: Диадема-Пресс.
ISBN
5-9256-0106-8 .
^ Уварова Е. Д, ed. (2004).
Эстрада России. XX век. Энциклопедия (in Russian). Олма-Пресс. p. 243.
ISBN
5-224-04462-6 .
^ Савченко, Борис (1997). Московская эстрада в лицах (in Russian). М.: Ассоциация авторов и издателей «Тандем». (see
sn. 1 ,
sn. 2 )
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