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| '''''The Little Rifleman''''' (Стрелочек) ([[TH]] 197 ; [[ČW]] 436) <ref name="note1"/> is a Russian folksong on which Tchaikovsky devised a humorous canon with friends in December 1882. Its origins were described shortly afterwards in a letter from [[Sergey Taneyev]] to [[Anton Arensky]]:
| | <includeonly>Театральный курьер. Русская опера</includeonly><noinclude> {{bibitem |id=1884/36 |Title=Театральный курьер. Русская опера |In=Петербургский листок [Saint Petersburg] |Edition=21 October 1884 {{OS}} |Imprint=1884 |Format=Article |Language=Russian |Notes=A new production of the opera [[Yevgeny Onegin]] at the Bolshoi Theatre in Saint Petersburg }} [[Category:Bibliography (1884)]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Bibliography (1884/036)}}</noinclude> |
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| {{quote|"After dinner, we occupied ourselves with writing a canon on a theme, given to us by [[Laroche]]: "''The Little Rifleman''". He was sure that it would be hard to come up with a canon in any interval other than the octave [...] I responded that it was not so difficult, and straight away wrote a canon within a few seconds [...] This prompted Pyotr Ilyich to join the contest, and for his part he offered up a remarkable canon in no time at all [...] The whole canon was immediately performed by [[Laroche]] and Tchaikovsky. [[Laroche]] couldn't think of anything; on his bit of paper he had only written a clef and 2 flats" <ref name="note2"/>.}} | |
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| Tchaikovsky's score has not been preserved <ref name="note3"/>.
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| <ref name="note1">Entitled "Little Archer" in [[ČW]].</ref>
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| <ref name="note2">Letter from [[Sergey Taneyev]] to [[Anton Arensky]] of 14/26 December 1882, quoted in {{bib|1958/14|Музыкальное наследие Чайковского}} (1958), p. 471.</ref>
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| <ref name="note3">[[Taneyev]]'s note of the main theme (B-flat major, 4 bars) is preserved in the [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive (в{{sup|1}}, No. 398).</ref>
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| [[Category:Musical Jokes]]
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| [[Category:Lost Works]]
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