Author: Ernst Theodor Amadeus HoffmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a
Author: Peter Ilich TchaikovskyPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017200263
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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The Nutcracker
Author: ???? ????? ??????????Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486438120
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Faithful to the original score, this delightful arrangement by Sergey Taneyev and the composer himself renders the entire ballet in a style both idiomatic to the piano and specially designed to be relatively easy to play.
Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite
Author: David DutkaniczPublisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486826872
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
This easy-to-play edition features Tchaikovsky's entire original suite; two extended arrangements, March and Russian Dance; plus five selections from the ballet that the composer omitted from the suite.
The Story of Peter Tchaikovsky
Author: Opal WheelerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781610060141
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Little Peter was born in the small mining town of Votkinsk, Russia, not far from the border of Asia. His father was a mine inspector. Miss Wheeler has shown sympathetically yet quite frankly what a nervous, unpredictable child Peter was and how his love for music, even as a very little boy, was almost greater than he could bear. Any sort of routine or application to work was impossible for him, and as a result, when a young man he could not bring himself to practice law. However, music still beckoned, and under the great Anton Rubinstein, he made certain progress. Here again, though, he broke all the established rules for composing and drove his master to despair. It was early one morning, seated at a table in the deserted dining room of an inn, that he wrote the first draft of his first symphony. Here is a fascinating picture of Tchaikovsky the brilliant composer and delightful companion. It is perfect for young readers.
Author: George BalanchineResonances
Author: Esther M. Morgan-EllisPublisher:
ISBN: 9781940771311
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Resonances: Engaging Music in Its Cultural Context offers a fresh curriculum for the college-level music appreciation course. The musical examples are drawn from classical, popular, and folk traditions from around the globe. These examples are organized into thematic chapters, each of which explores a particular way in which human beings use music. Topics include storytelling, political expression, spirituality, dance, domestic entertainment, and more. The chapters and examples can be taught in any order, making Resonances a flexible resource that can be adapted to your teaching or learning needs. This textbook is accompanied by a complete set of PowerPoint slides, a test bank, and learning objectives.
Author: Opal WheelerTchaikovsky's Ballets
Author: Roland John WileyPublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780198162490
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Tchaikovsky's Ballets combines analysis of the music of Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and Nutcracker with a description based on rare and not easily accessible documents of the first productions of these works in imperial Russia. Essential background concerning the ballet audience, the collaboration of composer and ballet-master, and Moscow in the 1860s leads into an account of the first production of Swan Lake in 1877. A discussion of the theatre reforms initiated by Ivan Vsevolozhsky, Director of the Imperial Theatres and Tchaikovsky's patron, prepares us for a study of the still-famous 1890 production of Sleeping Beauty, Tchaikovsky's first collaboration with the choreographer Marius Petipa. Professor Wiley then explains how Nutcracker, which followed two years after Sleeping Beauty, was seen by its producers and audiences in a much less favourable light in 1882 than it is now. The final chapter discusses the celebrated revival of Swan Lake in 1985 by Petipa and Leve Ivanov.
Peter Tchaikovsky and the Nutcracker Ballet
Author: Opal WheelerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781610060127
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A great composer comes to life in this vivid, exciting story of Peter Tchaikovsky, a young man driven by his genius through the early years of his career and on to enviable success and world recognition. Peter's unhappy apprenticeship in law ended when he absentmindedly nibbled on and ruined an important legal document. If his family considered his failure a disgrace, to Peter it was an omen. Now he was free to pursue and perhaps capture the music that sang in his head. When he left St. Petersburg to teach in Moscow, he took the first decisive step on his colorful road to fame. But success did not come easily, and Peter learned to endure the hard pinch of poverty before the wealthy Madame von Meck became his patroness, providing him with a generous income. Always enchanted with the world of childhood and far more at ease in it than in the more demanding world of adults, Peter began to write ballets for his sister Alexandra's children. The Sleeping Beauty was followed by Swan Lake, and finally he created The Nutcracker Ballet, which assured his place in the hearts of children and adults alike. Opal Wheeler writes with happy and intimate warmth, portraying a great man as appealingly human, and presenting simple piano arrangements of six of his most familiar, best-loved compositions.
