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"CARMANIOLA" (French carmagnole, from Italian. Carmagnola - the name of the city in Piedmont, Italy) - French folk revolutionary dance song. It was first played on the streets of Paris shortly after the capture of the Tuileries Palace (Aug. 10, 1792). The sans-culottes song, fervent and mocking, K. was saturated with topical political. content, expressed the hatred of the rebellious people to the king. despotism, aristocracy. In Paris, "K." brought the Marseilles federates. Muses size "K." 6/8. The first text was composed by the Marseilles in the traditional South French. Nara melody of a round dance song, which was then improvised by decomp. texts. Forbidden by Napoleon I during his consulate, K. was revived during the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, on the heroic days of the Paris Commune (1871, with the words of J. B. Clement and others). Before the advent of the Internationale, the French was her favorite song. workers. In con. 19 - beg. 20th centuries Revolutions were composed on the variations of the melody “K.” songs in decomp. countries. In the Sov. USA in the 1920s “K.” with the new text of V. M. Kirshon was spread among young people. Owlscomposers used K. in their op. (The 6th symphony of N. Ya. Myaskovsky, the ballet The Flames of Paris by B.V. Asafiev), created new compositions for it (D. B. Kabalevsky and others).