In Reply to: OMG! People actually Listen to Nutcraker??? posted by oldmkvi on November 7, 2016 at 09:18:08:
Tchaikovsky beat Rimsky-Korsakov to the punch with the use of the celesta (in the Sugar Plum Fairy), but I believe that Rimsky beat Tchaikovsky in the use of the diminished scale (which I've always heard referred to as the octatonic scale - I think we're talking about the same thing: strict alternation of half steps and whole steps, right?). This would probably would be an interesting research project, and I'm not even sure we could count out Liszt as the originator of this scale. Rimsky was always very open about his debt to Liszt in his own music.
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- Hey - you're cynical because of the endless seasonal performances you played! ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 16:00:39 11/07/16 (7)
- RE: Hey - you're cynical because of the endless seasonal performances you played! ;-) - oldmkvi 16:41:01 11/07/16 (6)
- Wow - A whole article about it on Wikipedia! "The Rimsky-Korsakov Scale" - Chris from Lafayette 18:46:51 11/07/16 (1)
- Hey, The Masters aren't called The Masters for nuthin'...nt - oldmkvi 19:22:40 11/07/16 (0)
- RE: Hey - you're cynical because of the endless seasonal performances you played! ;-) - Travis 17:47:33 11/07/16 (3)
- My Thanks to little girls who want to be Ballerinas! - oldmkvi 17:53:36 11/07/16 (2)
- RE: My Thanks to little girls who want to be Ballerinas! - Travis 19:47:05 11/07/16 (1)
- SF Ballet started the Whole Nutcraker thing, years ago. - oldmkvi 20:06:11 11/07/16 (0)