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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."

      1. The Hut on Hen's Legs (Baba Yaga)

      The Hut on Hen's Legs – The Bogatyr Gates (7:22)

      Stasov'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.

      Link to video

      Link to video

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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.

        804e1182-ec3d-4d0c-9ef2-82bf03959c8e-image.png

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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.

        804e1182-ec3d-4d0c-9ef2-82bf03959c8e-image.png

        Please. I'm gonna pull hipster rank on you here and mention that these guys were writing songs about that before it was cool:

        Link to video

        Please love yourself.

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          Looks a bit like Liz Warren.

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          • George KG George K

            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."

            1. The Hut on Hen's Legs (Baba Yaga)

            The Hut on Hen's Legs – The Bogatyr Gates (7:22)

            Stasov'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.

            Link to video

            Link to video

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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.

            Please love yourself.

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