Name: Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy (arr. Stepan Esipoff) by Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovski Piano Solo Digital Sheet Music
Brand: FRC Music
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Title Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy (arr. Stepan Esipoff)

Artist Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovski

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Arranger Stepan Esipoff

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 8

Arrangement Piano Solo

Publisher FRC Music

Level 3

Product ID 1138379

Genre Festival Instructional Contest Film/TV Wedding Romantic Period

Instruments Piano

Product Description

The "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" is a dance for a ballerina. It is the third movement in The Nutcracker pas de deux. This pas de deux is from Act 2 of the 1892 ballet The Nutcracker. It is danced by the principal female dancer. The number was choreographed by Lev Ivanov to music written by Tchaikovsky. 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 looked like a piano. It sounded like bells. Tchaikovsky wrote, "[The celesta is] midway between a tiny piano and a Glockenspiel, with a divinely wonderful sound." He wanted to use the celesta in The Nutcracker. He asked his publisher to buy one. He wanted to keep the purchase a secret. He did not want other Russian composers to "get wind of it and ... use it for unusual effects before me." Tchaikovsky introduced the celesta to Russian music lovers on 19 March 1892 when the Nutcracker Suite was performed for the Russian Musical Society in St. Petersburg. The instrument is forever identified with the Sugar Plum Fairy. It is heard in other parts of Act 2 of The Nutcracker besides the Sugar Plum Fairy's dance.[3] The "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" is one of the ballet's best known musical numbers. It is often "jazzed up" for television commercials at Christmas time. This arrangement was written by Stepan Esipoff and Edited by FLAVIO REGIS CUNHA. Intermediate level Format: Concert 9 x 12 inches. 8 pages.

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