The Nutcracker: Complete Ballet in Full Score (Dover Orchestral Score)

by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky

Overview

Tchaikovsky's enchanting Christmas fairy tale is his most popular work and, along with Swan Lake, the world's most frequently performed ballet. The work is a masterpiece of orchestration (including the historic first use of the celesta, in Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy) and is essential study for students of orchestral combinations and effects. Musicians will rejoice that previously difficult-to-find favorites like Waltz of the Snowflakes and Spanish Dance (Chocolate) are now available, along with the rest of this beloved score, in an affordable, single-volume edition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486438368
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	09/16/2004
Series:	Dover Music Scores Series
Edition description:	Bound Music
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	9.02(w) x 11.94(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) ranks among the most beloved of Russian composers. Thanks to his technical skill and strict work habits, his wide-ranging output includes symphonies, operas, ballets, instrumental and chamber music, and songs.

Table of Contents

	Overture	3
Act I
Tableau I
No. 1	Scene (Decoration and Lighting of the Christmas Tree)	24
No. 2	March	48
No. 3	Galop of the Children and Entrance of the Parents	72
No. 4	Dance Scene	90
No. 5	Scene and Dance (Grossvater)	115
No. 6	Scene	138
No. 7	Scene	170
Tableau II
No. 8	Scene	197
No. 9	Waltz of the Snowflakes	218
Act II
No. 10	Scene	268
No. 11	Scene	294
No. 12	Divertissement
a)	Chocolate (Spanish Dance)	322
b)	Coffee (Arabian Dance)	331
c)	Tea (Chinese Dance)	337
d)	Trepak (Russian Dance)	343
e)	Dance of the Mirlitons	353
f)	Mother Gigogne and the Clowns	362
No. 13	Waltz of the Flowers	385
No. 14	Pas de Deux	418
	Variation I (Tarantella)	446
	Variation II (Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy)	451
	Coda	462
No. 15	Waltz Finale	475
	Apotheosis	502