Tempo

Tchaikovsky - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Sheet music for flute
Info: | Piece from "The Nutcracker", one of the most popular ballet ever created. The "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" is a dance for a ballerina. This pas de deux is from Act 2 and is danced by the principal female dancer. Choreographer Marius Petipa wanted the Sugar Plum Fairy's music to sound like "drops of water shooting from a fountain". Tchaikovsky found the ideal instrument to do this job in Paris in 1891. It was then that he came across the recently invented celesta. This instrument look like a piano but sound like bells. |
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Date: | 1892 |
Artist: | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
Born: | 7 May 1840 , Votkinsk |
Died: | 6 November 1893 , St. Petersburg |
The artist: | Popular Romantic composer of 6 symphones and some of the world most performed ballets including Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty. |
Instrument: | Flute |
Key: | G major |
Range: | B4 - A6 |
Time signature: | 4/4 |
Tempo: | 120 BPM |
Duration: | 1:36 |
Pages: | 1 |
Difficulty: | Intermediate |
Style: | Classical |