Lieutenant Kijé is the score

Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

 composed by Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...

 for the 1934 Soviet film Lieutenant Kijé

Lieutenant Kijé (film)

Lieutenant Kijé is a 1934 Soviet comedy film directed by Aleksandr Faintsimmer based on the novel of the same title by Yury Tynyanov. The film was released in the USA as The Czar Wants to Sleep.Sergei Prokofiev composed the score.-Cast:...

directed by Aleksandr Faintsimmer

Aleksandr Faintsimmer

- Filmography :*Proshchalnaya gastrol' 'Artista *Traktir na Pyatnitskoy *Bez prava na oshibku *Pyatdesyat na pyatdesyat *Daleko na zapade *Devushka s gitaroy *The Gadfly...

 based on the novel of the same title by Yury Tynyanov

Yury Tynyanov

Yury Nikolaevich Tynyanov was a famous Soviet/Russian writer, literary critic, translator, scholar and screenwriter. He was an authority on Pushkin and an important member of the Russian Formalist school.-Life and work:...

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Suite from Lieutenant Kijé

Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...

 composed music to the film Lieutenant Kijé in 1933, and compiled a suite from the film music (Op.

Opus number

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 60). The suite exists in two versions, one using a baritone voice and the other using a saxophone

Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

. The music has also been used as the score for a ballet by the Bolshoi Ballet

Bolshoi Ballet

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 company.

The troika

Troika (dance)

Troika is a Russian folk dance, where a man dances with two women. The Russian word troika means three-horse team/gear. In the Russian dance the dancers imitate the prancing of horses pulling a sled or a carriage....

 is frequently used in films and documentaries for Christmas

Christmas

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 scenes and scenes involving snow

Snow

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. This motif from the suite was also used in the song "I Believe In Father Christmas" by the English rock musician Greg Lake, a member of Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

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, as well as Helen Love's Christmas single "Happiest Time of the Year". The pop group The Free Design

The Free Design

The Free Design was a Delevan, New York-based vocal group playing jazzy pop music. Their music can be described as sunshine pop and baroque pop, which were pop music subgenres at the time, which later influenced the bands Stereolab, Cornelius, Pizzicato Five, Beck and The High Llamas.-Early...

 used the motif as the basis for the song "Kije's Ouija," which appears on their 1970 album Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love

Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love

Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love is the fourth album from The Free Design. It was released in 1970.-Track listing:All songs are by Chris Dedrick except where otherwise noted.# Bubbles# Tomorrow Is The First Day Of The Rest Of My Life Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love is the fourth album from The Free Design. It was...

. Additionally, the troika motif is heard as the primary musical theme in Woody Allen

Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...

's 1975 film Love and Death

Love and Death

Love and Death is a 1975 comedy film by Woody Allen. Starring Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, Love and Death is a satirical take on Russian epic novels. Coming in between Sleeper and Annie Hall, Love and Death is in many respects an artistic transition between the two...

, which takes place in 19th century Russia. The Romance motif can also be heard on Sting's "Russians" from the album The Dream of the Blue Turtles

The Dream of the Blue Turtles

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Movements

The suite, in five movements broadly follows the plot of the movie:

1. Kijé's Birth: A soldier, while writing out the morning orders for the Imperial majesty Tsar
   Tsar
   Tsar is a title used to designate certain European Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers. As a system of government in the Tsardom of Russia and Russian Empire, it is known as Tsarist autocracy, or Tsarism...
   
    Paul, miscopies two words, creating a Lieutenant "Kijé". The Tsar learns of his "existence", and issues numerous orders concerning him. The palace administrators have no choice but to carry them out.
2. Romance. The fictional lieutenant falls in love.
3. Kijé's Wedding. Since the Tsar prefers his heroic soldiers to be married, the administrators concoct a fake wedding.
4. Troika
   Troika (dance)
   Troika is a Russian folk dance, where a man dances with two women. The Russian word troika means three-horse team/gear. In the Russian dance the dancers imitate the prancing of horses pulling a sled or a carriage....
   
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5. Kijé's Burial. The administrators finally rid themselves of the non-existent lieutenant by saying he has died.

According to the score, the duration of the suite is 18 minutes.

Instrumentation

Baritone voice

Baritone

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 (sometimes performed as tenor saxophone).

2 flute

Flute

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s, piccolo

Piccolo

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, 2 oboe

Oboe

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s, 2 clarinet

Clarinet

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s, tenor saxophone

Tenor saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...

 (sometimes performed on bassoon), 2 bassoon

Bassoon

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s, 4 horns

Horn (instrument)

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, 2 trumpet

Trumpet

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s, cornet

Cornet

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, 3 trombone

Trombone

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s, tuba

Tuba

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, 3 percussionists (cymbal

Cymbal

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s, little bells

Bell (instrument)

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, triangle

Triangle

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, bass drum

Bass drum

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, snare drum

Snare drum

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, tambourine

Tambourine

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), harp

Harp

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, piano

Piano

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 or/and celeste

Celesta

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, and strings

String instrument

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Recordings

• Chicago Symphony Orchestra
  Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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  , conducted by Claudio Abbado
  Claudio Abbado
  Claudio Abbado, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , is an Italian conductor. He has served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera,...
  
   in February 1977, with Adolph Herseth
  Adolph Herseth
  Adolph Sylvester Herseth, was principal trumpet in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1948 until 2001, and served as principal trumpet emeritus from 2001 until his retirement in 2004.-Biography:...
  
   as solo trumpet, reproduced on CD by Deutsche Grammophon
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   in 1995.
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra
  Chicago Symphony Orchestra
  The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1891, the Symphony makes its home at Orchestra Hall in Chicago and plays a summer season at the Ravinia Festival...
  
  , conducted by Fritz Reiner
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• Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
  Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
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  , conducted by Seiji Ozawa
  Seiji Ozawa
  is a Japanese conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of large-scale late Romantic works. He is most known for his work as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor of the Vienna State Opera.-Early years:...
  
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• The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Antal Doráti
  Antal Doráti
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• London Symphony Orchestra
  London Symphony Orchestra
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  , conducted by Sir Neville Marriner.
• Orchestre National de France
  Orchestre National de France
  The Orchestre national de France is a symphony orchestra run by Radio France. It has also been known as the Orchestre national de la Radiodiffusion française and Orchestre national de l'Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française .Since 1944, the orchestra has been based in the Théâtre...
  
  , conducted by Loren Maazel, 1981, reproduced on CD by CBS Records Masterworks for their Digital Masters collection, 1988.
• Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
  Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
  The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra is an American symphony orchestra based in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1880 by Joseph Otten as the St. Louis Choral Society, the SLSO is the second-oldest symphony orchestra in the United States as it is preceded by the New York Philharmonic.-History:The St...
  
   and Chorus, conducted by Leonard Slatkin
  Leonard Slatkin
  Leonard Edward Slatkin is an American conductor and composer.-Early life and education:Slatkin was born in Los Angeles to a musical family that came from areas of the Russian Empire now in Ukraine. His father Felix Slatkin was the violinist, conductor and founder of the Hollywood String Quartet,...
  
   in 1977, with Arnold Voketaitis
  Arnold Voketaitis
  Arnold Voketaitis is an American bass-baritone of Lithuanian descent who had an active singing career performing in operas, concerts, and recitals from the late 1950s through the 1990s. He enjoyed a particularly successful partnership with the New York City Opera and has performed with most of the...
  
  , Bass
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  , reproduced on CD on Vox
  Vox
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   CDX 5021 (rendered as "Lieutenant Kizheh")

Film

• The original film Lieutenant Kizhe for which Prokofiev's music was written, with English subtitles, at Google Video
• The 1958 British film The Horse's Mouth
  The Horse's Mouth (film)
  The Horse's Mouth is a 1958 film directed by Ronald Neame and filmed in Technicolor. Alec Guinness wrote the screenplay from the 1944 novel The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary, and also played the lead role of Gulley Jimson, a London artist.-Synopsis:...
  
  , directed by Ronald Neame
  Ronald Neame
  Ronald Elwin Neame CBE, BSC was an English film cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director.-Early career:...
  
   from the novel by Joyce Cary
  Joyce Cary
  Joyce Cary was an Anglo-Irish novelist and artist.-Youth and education:...
  
  , uses the suite for its soundtrack.
• The suite is used in the 1975 Woody Allen
  Woody Allen
  Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...
  
   film Love and Death
  Love and Death
  Love and Death is a 1975 comedy film by Woody Allen. Starring Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, Love and Death is a satirical take on Russian epic novels. Coming in between Sleeper and Annie Hall, Love and Death is in many respects an artistic transition between the two...
  
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• The melody for Kijé's Wedding is used in the 1988 film Crossing Delancey
  Crossing Delancey
  Crossing Delancey is a romantic comedy film starring Amy Irving and Peter Riegert released in 1988. It is directed by Joan Micklin Silver and based on a play by Susan Sandler, who also wrote the screenplay...
  
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• Vladimir Cosma
  Vladimir Cosma
  Vladimir Cosma was born April 13, 1940 in Bucharest, Romania, into a family of musicians.His father, Teodor Cosma, was a pianist and conductor, his mother a writer-composer, his uncle, Edgar Cosma, composer and conductor, and one of his grandmothers, pianist, a student of the renowned Ferrucio...
  
   quotes nearly untouched melody from The Birth of Kijé in the theme Remembering the Hills from his score to Yves Robert
  Yves Robert
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  's 1990 film La Gloire de mon père
  My Father's Glory
  My Father's Glory is a 1957 autobiographical novel by Marcel Pagnol. Its sequel is My Mother's Castle. It is the first of four volumes in Pagnol's Souvenirs d'enfance series. It is also a 1990 film based on the novel, and directed by Yves Robert....
  
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• Part of the Wedding movement is used in the 1991 film Doc Hollywood
  Doc Hollywood
  Doc Hollywood is a 1991 American romantic comedy film based on the book, What? Dead...Again?, by Neil B. Shulman, M.D. The film stars Michael J. Fox, Julie Warner, Woody Harrelson and Bridget Fonda. It was directed by Michael Caton-Jones. The filming took place in Micanopy, Florida.-Plot:Dr....
  
  directed by Michael Caton-Jones
  Michael Caton-Jones
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   and starring Michael J. Fox
  Michael J. Fox
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Popular music

• Troika
  • The Free Design
    The Free Design
    The Free Design was a Delevan, New York-based vocal group playing jazzy pop music. Their music can be described as sunshine pop and baroque pop, which were pop music subgenres at the time, which later influenced the bands Stereolab, Cornelius, Pizzicato Five, Beck and The High Llamas.-Early...
    
     jazzed up and added lyrics to the Troika theme in their song "Kijé's Ouija".
  • A part of the Troika movement is used in the 1974 song "I Believe in Father Christmas
    I Believe in Father Christmas
    "I Believe In Father Christmas" is a song by Greg Lake , with lyrics by Peter Sinfield.Although it is often categorised as a Christmas song this was not Lake's intention...
    
    " by Greg Lake
    Greg Lake
    Gregory Stuart "Greg" Lake is an English musician, songwriter and producer, best known as a vocalist and bassist of King Crimson, and the bassist, guitarist, vocalist, and lyricist of Emerson, Lake & Palmer.-1960s: King Crimson:...
    
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  • Danny Elfman
    Danny Elfman
    Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film. Up until 1995, he was the lead singer and songwriter in the rock band Oingo Boingo, a group he formed in 1976...
    
     used an excerpt from the Troika theme for the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo
    Oingo Boingo
    Oingo Boingo was an American new wave band. They are best known for their influence on other musicians, their soundtrack contributions and their high energy Halloween concerts. The band was founded in 1972 as The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, a performance art group...
    
     song "The Rocketmen".
  • The melody from the Troika was quoted in "Russia" by Black Tape for a Blue Girl
    Black tape for a blue girl
    Black Tape for a Blue Girl is an American Dark Wave band formed in 1986 by Projekt Records' founder Sam Rosenthal. Their music takes on elements of dark cabaret, Dark Wave, ethereal, ambient and neoclassical music. Director David Lynch...
    
     on their album As One Aflame Laid Bare by Desire
    As one aflame laid bare by desire
    As One Aflame Laid Bare by Desire is the seventh studio album by the Darkwave band Black Tape for a Blue Girl. It was released in 1999 by Projekt Records.-Track listing:#"As One Aflame Laid Bare by Desire"#"Given" As One Aflame Laid Bare by Desire is the seventh studio album by the Darkwave band...
    
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  • Wii Music
    Wii Music
    is a free form music game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console. The game was released in Japan and North America in October 2008, and in Europe and Australia in the following month...
    
     uses the Troika as one of its many songs.
  • The Simpsons
    The Simpsons
    The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
    
    uses the Troika in the episode "Pranks and Greens
    Pranks and Greens
    "Pranks and Greens" is the sixth episode of the twenty first season of The Simpsons. It aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 22, 2009. In this episode, Bart tracks down an immature, college-aged man named Andy Hamilton who was once hailed Springfield Elementary's best prankster...
    
    ".
  • General Public
    General Public
    General Public were a band formed by The Beat vocalists, Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger, and which included former members of Dexy's Midnight Runners, The Specials and The Clash...
    
     incorporated the Troika into the instrumental section of their live version of The English Beat's "Save It For Later", which was recorded during the holiday season.
  • Bill Finegan
    Bill Finegan
    William James Finegan was an American jazz bandleader, pianist, arranger, and composer. He was an arranger in the Glenn Miller Orchestra in the late 1930s and early 1940s.-Life and Career:...
    
     wrote an arrangement of the Troika for his jazz group, Sauter-Finegan Orchestra
    Sauter-Finegan Orchestra
    The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra was an American swing jazz band popular in the 1950s.The orchestra was led by Eddie Sauter and Bill Finegan, who were both experienced big band arrangers. Sauter played mellophone, trumpet, and drums, and had attended Columbia University and Juilliard; Finegan had...
    
    , under the name "Midnight Sleighride".

• Romance
  • Danny Elfman
    Danny Elfman
    Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film. Up until 1995, he was the lead singer and songwriter in the rock band Oingo Boingo, a group he formed in 1976...
    
     used the broken chords and celesta from this movement to define the end credits for the score to the 1994 film Black Beauty. Much of his score for Black Beauty is a theme with variations on Prokofiev's "Romance".
  • Sting used the melody from the Romance of Lieutenant Kijé in the chorus of his 1985 song "Russians
    Russians (song)
    "Russians" is a song by Sting, from his debut solo album, The Dream of the Blue Turtles, released in 1985. It was also released as a single. Sting cautions about the repercussions of the Cold War including the mutually assured destruction doctrine...
    
    ".
  • Blood Sweat & Tears used the melody from the Romance as one of several themes from other works woven into their arrangement of the song "40,000 Headmen", on the album Blood, Sweat & Tears 3
    Blood, Sweat & Tears 3
    Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 is the third album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in 1970.-History:After the huge success of their previous album, Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 was highly anticipated and it rose quickly to the top of the US album chart...
    
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External links

• MIDI for Troika
• Kevin Bartig Creating the Lieutenant Kijé Suite. Discussion of relation between Prokofiev's film score and the suite