" A Maiden's Prayer " (Polish original title: " Modlitwa dziewicy " Op. 4, French: " La priÃÆ'¨re d'une vierge ") is the composition of Polish composer Tekla B? darzewska-Baranowska (1834-1861), published in 1856 in Warsaw, and later as a supplement to the Revue et gazette musicale de Paris in 1859. This work is a short piano piece with medium difficulty levels for intermediate pianist. Some people love it for its charming and romantic melodies; others describe it as "tosh sentimental salon." Pianist and academic Arthur Loesser described it as "this grim product of ignorance."
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American musician Bob Wills heard "Maiden's Prayer" playing in a violin when he was a barber in Roy, New Mexico, and arranged it in a Western swing style. Wills first recorded it as instrumental in 1935 (Vocalion 03924, released in 1938), and quickly became one of his distinctive tones. Later, it became the standard recorded by many country artists, including Buck Owens on 1965's album number one I've Got a Tiger By the Tail. This tone is still standard in the repertoire of Western swing bands.
Wills wrote the lyrics for "Maiden's Prayer" and recorded it again in 1941 (Okeh 06205) with vocals by Tommy Duncan. The lyrics reflect the title, and the song, as written by Wills, opens with:
Relatively some country singers have covered "Maiden's Prayer" with vocals, but they include Ray Price on tribute albums of San Antonio Rose (1962) and Willie Nelson on his album Red Headed Stranger on CD 2000, but not LP 1975). Both singers use lyrics written by Wills with slight variations, eg. the girl is Indian in the Price version. Also Everly Brothers recorded the song in 1973.
Wills recorded the song for the third time on Bob Wills Sings and Plays' 1963 album. When he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970, "Maiden's Prayer" was one of the works cited.
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In popular media
Perhaps the most impressive use of "Maiden's Prayer" was at the opera 1930 Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. This song appears in the middle of action I; it is played on a piano that is not tuned to the honky-tonk frequented by prostitutes and their clients. Jakob Schmidt, one of Mahagonny's residents, refers to the song as "ewige Kunst" ("eternal art").
"Maiden's Prayer" was heard offstage in the Act of Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov. "Maiden's Prayer" appears as a piano insert song in the anime series Strawberry Panic . "Maiden's Prayer" is also played by garbage trucks in Taiwan. Because the residents have to throw away their own garbage, the garbage truck signaled everyone to do it with this piece of melody, along with Beethoven FÃÆ'¼r Elise .
Standards Rodgers and Hart That Never Enter My mind refers to this song in the second row from behind.
In the television series 2013 The Tunnel , Anglo-French actor and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg performs a voice-over for the Maiden's Prayer song, singing a mixture of French and English:
In the literature
The Maiden's Prayer is used in the dreadful context of the ghost story of Mary Wilkins Freeman The Wind in the Rose-Bush (published 1903), in which the main character, awakened from sleep by voice a melody played in an empty-looking house, rushing down to see who's on the piano, only to find that no one was there.
References
Bibliography
- McWhorter, Frankie. Cowboy Fiddler in Bob Wills' Band . University of North Texas Press, 1997. ISBNÃ, 1-57441-025-3
- Mishler, Craig. Frozen Chimney: Athapaskan Fiddle Music and Square Dancing in Northeast Alaska and Northwest Canada . University of Illinois Press, 1993. ISBNÃ, 0-252-01996-2
External links
- "La priÃÆ'¨re d'une vierge": Scores on the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
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