{"id":4300,"date":"2023-01-23T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/?p=4300"},"modified":"2023-09-11T15:56:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T19:56:50","slug":"arachnopnonia-tchaikovsky-souvenir-de-florence-op-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/2023\/01\/arachnopnonia-tchaikovsky-souvenir-de-florence-op-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Arachnopnonia: Tchaikovsky “Souvenir de Florence, op. 70”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> Arachnophonia<\/a> (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library<\/a>\u2018s collection.<\/p>\n

All links included in these posts will take you to either the library catalog record for<\/a> the item(s) in question<\/a> or to additional relevant<\/a> information from<\/a> around the web<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s installment of Arachnophonia<\/a> is by student manager Brianna (class of 2023) and features a score and a<\/a> recording of Tchaikovksy’s string sextet “Souvenir de Florence”<\/a>. Thanks, Brianna!<\/em><\/p>\n

Tchaikovsky – Souvenir de Florence<\/em>, op. 70<\/a><\/strong>
\nScore<\/a>
\nCD<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Florence,<\/p>\n

Souvenir de Florence<\/a><\/em> is a chamber piece written by the great Romantic Era composer Tchaikovsky<\/a>. It involves 2 violins, 2 violas, and 2 cellos all playing their own parts. I find this composition incredibly interesting because of the moments of chaos created by 6 different parts being played at once, but also because of the brilliant moments where Tchaikovsky blends the sounds of the 6 instruments incredibly well. Tchaikovsky dedicated this piece to the St. Petersburg Chamber Music Society after becoming an Honorary Member.<\/p>\n

\"Souvenir

Title page of the first printed edition of Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence score<\/p><\/div>\n

The principle theme of this piece was written during a visit to Florence, Italy<\/a>, hence the title which translates to \u201cMemory of Florence\u201d. The first movement<\/a>, in sonata form<\/a>, is likely the most memorable of the 4 in the piece as it starts off with a bang and returns to the beginning theme at the end with even more energy. However, my favorite movements are the last<\/a> two<\/a>. These movements have distinct Russian folk-like melodies that contrast the music in the first two, and which I think are the most interesting of the 4. As a whole, I think this is my favorite chamber piece I have ever heard. Be sure to pick up the score<\/a> or find it on a CD<\/a> at the Music Library!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note: Arachnophonia (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library\u2018s collection. All links included in these … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61217,15223],"tags":[61217,230861,191297,76092,61296,227126,227125,250,206874,225795,227128,225983,227123,227124,227122,225971,38089,61279],"class_list":["post-4300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arachnophonia","category-collection","tag-arachnophonia","tag-arachnophonia-22-23","tag-brianna","tag-cello","tag-chamber-music","tag-firenze","tag-florence","tag-italy","tag-pyotr-ilyich-tchaikovsky","tag-romantic-era","tag-sextet","tag-souvenir-de-florence","tag-string-sextet","tag-stringed-instruments","tag-strings","tag-tchaikovsky","tag-viola","tag-violin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgMV3E-17m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4300"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4308,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions\/4308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}