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Nothing is known about these musical sketches ([[TH]] 222) <ref name="note1"/> which appear in Tchaikovsky's Notebook for 1884–85 <ref name="note2"/>, under the heading '''''Imitation Russian song''''' (Подделка под р[усскую] песнь). The themes — in C major (4 bars), in G major (5 bars) and D major (4 bars) — cannot be identified with any known Russian folksongs, although they shares many characteristics of the genre <ref name="note3"/>.
Nothing is known about these musical sketches ([[TH]] 222) <ref name="note1"/> which appear in Tchaikovsky's Notebook for 1884–85 <ref name="note2"/>, under the heading '''''Imitation Russian song''''' (Подделка под р[усскую] песнь). The themes — in C major (4 bars), in G major (5 bars) and D major (4 bars) — cannot be identified with any known Russian folksongs, although they share many characteristics of the genre <ref name="note3"/>.


==Notes and References==
==Notes and References==

Latest revision as of 22:00, 4 March 2023

Nothing is known about these musical sketches (TH 222) [1] which appear in Tchaikovsky's Notebook for 1884–85 [2], under the heading Imitation Russian song (Подделка под р[усскую] песнь). The themes — in C major (4 bars), in G major (5 bars) and D major (4 bars) — cannot be identified with any known Russian folksongs, although they share many characteristics of the genre [3].

Notes and References

  1. As "Imitations of Russian Song" in TH. The C major theme (only) is described with Tchaikovsky's Notebook No. 16 in ČW, p. 957.
  2. Klin House-Museum Archive (a2, No. 16).
  3. Published in Boleslav Rabinovich, П. И. Чайковский и народная песня. Избранные отрывки из писем и статей (1963), p. 141.