Dance of the Swans -from Swan Lake
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Product ID: GM1 CL076
By Pjotr Illych Tchaikovsky
Publisher:
Goodmusic
Series:
Concert Classics
Genre:
Romantic Era
Line Up:
Symphony Orchestra
Duration:
1:30
Level: 3
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About this item
The short "Dance of the Swans" has been used many times in humorous(?) sketches and dance routines but just try to imagine a row of beautiful swans! The brass and timpani only each play two notes at the final cadence and can be omitted. However, if they are sitting there they may as well join in! This could be followed by the "Scene" (GMCL075) to make a more substantial "Swan Lake" excerpt.
Instrumentation
2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in Bb, 2 Bassoons 4 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani (all brass & timpani optional) Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass)
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Composer
Pjotr Illych Tchaikovsky (1840-1897)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (May 7, 1840 – November 6, 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. His wide-ranging output includes symphonies, operas, ballets, instrumental, chamber music and songs. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, his last three numbered symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin.
Born into a middle-class family, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant, despite his obvious musical precocity. He pursued a musical career against the wishes of his family, entering the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1862 and graduating in 1865. This formal, Western-oriented training set him apart from the contemporary nationalistic movement embodied by the influential group of young Russian composers known as The Five, with whom Tchaikovsky's professional relationship was mixed.
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