The Nursery (song cycle)

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The Nursery is a song cycle by Modest Mussorgsky that vividly portrays scenes from a child’s world through a series of characterful, psychologically nuanced miniatures.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf song cycle
vocal composition
accompaniment piano
characteristic miniature character pieces
psychological realism
composer Modest Mussorgsky
countryOfOrigin Russia
creator Modest Mussorgsky
depicts childhood
children’s everyday life
firstPerformanceLocation Russia
genre art song
hasCatalogueNumber without opus number
hasPart At Bedtime (song)
In the Corner (song)
The Beetle (song)
The Cat Sailor (song)
The Hobby-Horse (song)
With Nurse (song)
With the Doll (song)
hasTheme domestic life in 19th-century Russia
humor and irony
naive perspective of a child
influencedBy Russian folk speech patterns
language Russian
movementStyle through-composed songs
notableArrangementBy Dmitri Shostakovich
Edison Denisov
notableFeature each song presents a different scene from a child’s life
music closely follows the inflections of Russian language
numberOfSongs 7
originalInstrumentation voice and piano
partOf Mussorgsky’s vocal works
period Romantic era
style speech-like vocal declamation
vivid characterization
subjectMatter a child’s world
imaginative play
interactions between child and adults
textAuthor Modest Mussorgsky
tonalLanguage tonal with modal inflections
uses piano to illustrate actions and characters
vocalType mezzo-soprano or soprano

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Modest Mussorgsky notableWork The Nursery (song cycle)