The Rose and the Nightingale by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Key: d minor (Lower key) French and English languages This song has been scanned from sheet music that is in the public domain. Lyrics The Rose enslaves the Nightingale; But though he seeing till dawn shows pale, No answering word the rose bestoweth. Another minstrel takes his …
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- The Rose and the Nightingale by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Key: d minor (Lower key)
- French and English languages
- This song has been scanned from sheet music that is in the public domain.
Lyrics
The Rose enslaves the Nightingale;
But though he seeing till dawn shows pale,
No answering word the rose bestoweth.
Another minstrel takes his lyre
And strives a maiden’s heart to fire;
Alas, the maid then scarcely knoweth
For whom he sings, nor why his strain
Is full of yearning love and pain
Recording of this song on YouTube
More information on this song:
This song by Rimsky-Korsakov’s belongs to his early collection Four Songs, Op. 2 written to poems by Aleksei Koltsov . Written in 1866 and offered in dedication to Malvina Cui, spouse of composer César Cui, the piece carries a lush, Eastern-tinged character. Its text tells of a nightingale pouring its voice toward a rose while a young man sings to a girl who never quite grasps his meaning—a pair of intertwined serenades, each unanswered in its own way.
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Rimsky-Korsakov: The Rose and the Nightingale
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- The Rose and the Nightingale by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Key: d minor (Lower key)
- French and English languages
- This song has been scanned from sheet music that is in the public domain.
Lyrics
The Rose enslaves the Nightingale;
But though he seeing till dawn shows pale,
No answering word the rose bestoweth.
Another minstrel takes his lyre
And strives a maiden’s heart to fire;
Alas, the maid then scarcely knoweth
For whom he sings, nor why his strain
Is full of yearning love and pain
Recording of this song on YouTube
More information on this song:
This song by Rimsky-Korsakov’s belongs to his early collection Four Songs, Op. 2 written to poems by Aleksei Koltsov . Written in 1866 and offered in dedication to Malvina Cui, spouse of composer César Cui, the piece carries a lush, Eastern-tinged character. Its text tells of a nightingale pouring its voice toward a rose while a young man sings to a girl who never quite grasps his meaning—a pair of intertwined serenades, each unanswered in its own way.
