My Useless Trivia Beats George's Useless Trivia, Neener
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Baba Yaga. In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga is a supernatural being who appears as a deformed or ferocious-looking old woman. In Russian folklore, Baba Yaga flies around in a mortar, wields a pestle, and dwells deep in the forest in a hut usually described as standing on chicken legs.
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I've known about Baba Yaga since I was, oh, about 5 years old. My grandmother (I called her "Baba") told me tales about Baba Yaga. She was 100% Russian, and grew up in Czarist Russia, fleeing after the revolution of 1917.
For a musical version of Baba Yaga, look no further than Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition."
- The Hut on Hen's Legs (Baba Yaga)
The Hut on Hen's Legs – The Bogatyr Gates (7:22)
Link to video Link to videoStasov's comment: "Hartmann's drawing depicted a clock in the form of Baba Yaga's hut on fowl's legs. Mussorgsky added the witch's flight in a mortar."
A scherzo marked Feroce with a slower middle section. Motives in this movement evoke the bells of a large clock and the whirlwind sounds of a chase. Structurally, the movement mirrors the grotesque qualities of "Gnomus" on a grand scale.
The movement is cast in ternary form (ABA):
Allegro con brio, feroce
Andante mosso
Allegro molto (a nearly literal repeat)
Coda
The coda leads without a break into the final movement of the suite."Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Catseye3 said in My Useless Trivia Beats George's Useless Trivia, Neener:
Baba Yaga. In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga is a supernatural being who appears as a deformed or ferocious-looking old woman. In Russian folklore, Baba Yaga flies around in a mortar, wields a pestle, and dwells deep in the forest in a hut usually described as standing on chicken legs.
Please. I'm gonna pull hipster rank on you here and mention that these guys were writing songs about that before it was cool:
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@George-K said in My Useless Trivia Beats George's Useless Trivia, Neener:
I've known about Baba Yaga since I was, oh, about 5 years old. My grandmother (I called her "Baba") told me tales about Baba Yaga. She was 100% Russian, and grew up in Czarist Russia, fleeing after the revolution of 1917.
Okay that's just cool.
My grandparents told me about Krampus. Probably because I was kind of an asshole, I dunno.
