March: Song of the LarkOp. 37bis, No. 3

March: Song of the Lark, the third of the twelve pieces of Tchaikovsky's The Seasons, written for the St Petersburg magazine Nouvellist, which printed one in each monthly issue of 1876 under lines of Russian verse; March's come from Apollon Maykov. Marked Andantino espressivo, in G minor and 2/4, its quiet melody is ornamented with grace notes and quick figures over soft chords, grows livelier in the middle and returns to fade away. This edition follows Louis Oesterle's 1909 Schirmer edition.