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Ponchielli - Dance of the Hours from La Gioconda
Sheet music for flute
| Info: | Dance of the Hours (Italian: Danza delle ore) is a short ballet and is the act 3 finale of the opera La Gioconda composed by Amilcare Ponchielli. Later performed on its own, the Dance of the Hours was at one time one of the best known and most frequently performed ballets. It became even more widely known after its inclusion in the 1940 Disney animated film Fantasia where it is depicted as a comic ballet featuring anthropomorphized ostriches, hippos, elephants, and alligators. |
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| Date: | 1876 |
| Artist: | Amilcare Ponchielli |
| Born: | 31 August 1834, Paderno Ponchielli |
| Died: | 16 January 1886, Milan |
| The artist: | Italian composer, mainly of operas. He was married to the soprano Teresina Brambilla. Ponchielli won a scholarship at the age of nine to study music at the Milan Conservatory, writing his first symphony by the time he was ten years old. |
| Instrument: | Flute |
| Key: | D major |
| Range: | D4 - E7 |
| Time signature: | 2/4 |
| Tempo: | 60 BPM |
| Duration: | 1:30 |
| Pages: | 2 |
| Difficulty: | Intermediate |
| Style: | Classical |
