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Johnstone Creations – TCHAIKOVSKY – Arab Dance, from ‘The Nutcracker’ – this music has been specially produced for Five Cellos.

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PDF 1  – General Score
PDF 2 – All Individual Cello Parts

The tempo indication is – Andante con moto

General difficulty of the music – Level: MEDIUM – The music is transported into C Minor to take advantage of the vibrant cello lower open strings….

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Tchaikovsky took ballet very seriously, loving the sense of dancing to music. Indeed, it is curious that he was described as writing symphonies that were too ‘balletic’ and ballet music that was too ‘symphonic’. The truth is that they are often merged so as to become a ‘one’.

The Nutcracker Ballet is based on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s 1816 fairy tale ‘Nussknacker und Mausekönig’ (Nutcracker and Mouse King) via a French retelling by Alexandre Dumas. Written in 1892 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the two-act ballet tells the story of waltzing snowflakes, a handsome prince and some warring mice, and a Christmas adventure which transports two young children, Clara and Fritz, into a magical wonderland. The continuing wonderful popularity of the work is partly because it is a rich and subtly humorous story for children while at the same time offering irony and literary allusions that only adults would understand. In some ways the concept was almost ahead of its time; it has no moral or didactic agenda, and it consciously blurs fantasy and reality as strange nocturnal events take place in the same world that the children inhabit. Just a quick mention that….the first ballet performance ever was on 18th December, 1892, at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The ARAB DANCE (often titled ‘Arabian Dance’ or in French ‘Danse arabe’) is convincingly Oriental music with a droning accompaniment yet is actually based on a Georgian lullaby! David Johnstone conceives this as a chamber music ‘cello quintet’ and swops the parts around frequently so all cellists can be protagonists. It is transposed so as to avoid thumb position, although 5th, 6th and 7th positions are called for by the upper cello voices. More-or-less this would correspond to the British grades 5 to 7, or in Spain to the first courses of ‘grado medio’, but advanced students and professionals should find this setting delightful too!

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