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Since the PDs are just one element of the (informal) suite, they do not in themselves constitute a suite, and should not be categorised as a suite, imo.
Now, leaving that issue aside and just considering the PDs as a work in its own right, which is how they mostly exist: Any group of related pieces can be thought of as a "suite", and on that basis, this group of dances could be regarded as a suite. Except it is never so described, in my experience. It's just the "Polovtsian Dances", not a "suite of Polovtsian Dances" or the "Polovtsian Dances Suite" or anything like that. So again, we have no reason to place this in Category:Suites, and it ought to be removed.
Comments? -- Jack of Oz [your turn] 11:33, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
"There was no end of waiting for the orchestration of the Polovtsian Dances, and yet they had been announced and rehearsed by me with the chorus. It was high time to copy out the parts. In despair I heaped reproaches on Borodin. He, too, was none too happy. At last, giving up all hope, I offered to help him with the orchestration. Thereupon he came to my house in the evening, bringing with him the hardly touched score of the Polovtsian Dances; and the three of us — he, Anatoly Lyadov, and I — took it apart and began to score it in hot haste. To gain time, we wrote in pencil and not in ink. Thus we sat at work until late at night. The finished sheets of the score Borodin covered with liquid gelatine, to keep our pencil marks intact; and in order to have the sheets dry the sooner, he hung them out like washing on lines in my study. Thus the number was ready and passed on to the copyist. The orchestration of the closing chorus I did almost single-handed..."[9] —Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Chronicle of My Musical Life, 1909" 67.11.191.237 ( talk) 21:37, 1 October 2009 (UTC)anne
It appears several times as background music in The Simpsons (I can recall some 3 episodes, though the prominence and length of the melody varies). It wouldn't hurt to show just how popular it is in such series. KelilanK ( talk) 23:28, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
"And who can forget the Polovtsian Dances by Borodin?" That dialoge was part of a TV commercial (selling classical music) back in the 1960s. Who can forget it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.57.251.251 ( talk) 14:16, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
User:DERoss DERoss ( talk) 01:22, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
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Since the PDs are just one element of the (informal) suite, they do not in themselves constitute a suite, and should not be categorised as a suite, imo.
Now, leaving that issue aside and just considering the PDs as a work in its own right, which is how they mostly exist: Any group of related pieces can be thought of as a "suite", and on that basis, this group of dances could be regarded as a suite. Except it is never so described, in my experience. It's just the "Polovtsian Dances", not a "suite of Polovtsian Dances" or the "Polovtsian Dances Suite" or anything like that. So again, we have no reason to place this in Category:Suites, and it ought to be removed.
Comments? -- Jack of Oz [your turn] 11:33, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
"There was no end of waiting for the orchestration of the Polovtsian Dances, and yet they had been announced and rehearsed by me with the chorus. It was high time to copy out the parts. In despair I heaped reproaches on Borodin. He, too, was none too happy. At last, giving up all hope, I offered to help him with the orchestration. Thereupon he came to my house in the evening, bringing with him the hardly touched score of the Polovtsian Dances; and the three of us — he, Anatoly Lyadov, and I — took it apart and began to score it in hot haste. To gain time, we wrote in pencil and not in ink. Thus we sat at work until late at night. The finished sheets of the score Borodin covered with liquid gelatine, to keep our pencil marks intact; and in order to have the sheets dry the sooner, he hung them out like washing on lines in my study. Thus the number was ready and passed on to the copyist. The orchestration of the closing chorus I did almost single-handed..."[9] —Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Chronicle of My Musical Life, 1909" 67.11.191.237 ( talk) 21:37, 1 October 2009 (UTC)anne
It appears several times as background music in The Simpsons (I can recall some 3 episodes, though the prominence and length of the melody varies). It wouldn't hurt to show just how popular it is in such series. KelilanK ( talk) 23:28, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
"And who can forget the Polovtsian Dances by Borodin?" That dialoge was part of a TV commercial (selling classical music) back in the 1960s. Who can forget it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.57.251.251 ( talk) 14:16, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
User:DERoss DERoss ( talk) 01:22, 10 December 2017 (UTC)