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In Reply to: RE: OMG! People actually Listen to Nutcraker??? posted by oldmkvi on November 07, 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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It would be interesting to know where it turned up first, and when. ( Octotonic=Diminished Scale )
Sugar Plum has some amazing harmony, and in the 2nd section, the Bass Clarinet has a chromatic scale that that just slices right through the harmony, really cool.
Tchaik influenced Stravinsky, and one thing he did that Stravinsky did was to cross the 1st and 2nd winds at times.
Makes things more interesting for the 2nd players.
Hey, I only played Nut 30 or more times a year for 38 years...
But it first turned up WAY before Liszt and R-K: how about in a Scarlatti Sonata (Kirkpatrick 319)! But goes even further back to Persian music of the Seventh Century - amazing!
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Yeah, what would you know?
:^)))
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
I know a Cash-Cow when I see one...
Same for "A Christmas Carol" at ACT.
The music isn't as good, tho.
And every other ballet company ever.
It's still wonderful music.
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
It is fine music, but it's a miracle that the Ballet , with the Christmas Theme, caught on the way it did.
Kept a lot of us employed, and contributed the success and popularity of Ballet.
People in SF go nuts for it.
Ballet in general, Nut in particular, that is.
Again, thanks to all the would-be Ballerinas getting their parents to take them!
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