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  1. Scheherazade - Wikipedia

    Across the next five centuries, Scheherazade’s witty and dynamic voice was taken up by storytellers across the cultivated urban centres of Baghdad, Damascus, Cairo, and al-Andalus, with influences …

  2. Scheherazade: the story of a storyteller - Art UK

    Jan 23, 2018 · With the sultan's approval, Scheherazade started her very first story. So captivating and mesmerising were her charm and her storytelling capabilities, it was almost dawn before anyone …

  3. Scheherazade | Rimsky-Korsakov’s Orchestral Suite | Britannica

    Scheherazade, orchestral suite by Russian composer Nicolay Rimsky-Korsakov that was inspired by the collection of largely Middle Eastern and Indian tales known as The Thousand and One Nights (or …

  4. Scheherazade - Arabian Nights Wiki

    Scheherazade or Shahrazad is a legendary Persian queen and the storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights. In Sir Richard F. Burton's translation of The Nights, Shahrazad was described in this …

  5. THE STORY BEHIND: Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade"

    Feb 7, 2022 · Scheherazade was inspired by the tales of The Arabian Nights in which the Sultan vows to take a new wife each night and have her executed the next morning. However, his latest bride, …

  6. NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV | Scheherazade | Jader Bignamini, …

    NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV | Scheherazade | Jader Bignamini, conductor | Detroit Symphony Orchestra

  7. SCHEHERAZADE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    The meaning of SCHEHERAZADE is the fictional wife of a sultan and the narrator of the tales in the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.

  8. Who was Sheherazade? - Women'n Art

    Aug 12, 2020 · She was storyteller. The name Scheherazade derives from the Arabic form of the Middle Persian name Čehrāzād which is composed of the words words čehr (lineage) and āzād (noble, …

  9. The Tale of Scheherazade Definition - World Literature I Key Term ...

    The Tale of Scheherazade is a central narrative in 'The Arabian Nights,' where Scheherazade, a clever and resourceful woman, tells captivating stories to delay her execution by the king, Shahryar.

  10. Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov) - Wikipedia

    Scheherazade, also commonly Sheherazade (Russian: Шехеразада, romanized: Shekherazada, IPA: [ʂɨxʲɪrɐˈzadə]), Op. 35, is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888 and …