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- Title
- Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
- Creator
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Performer
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Contributor
- Philharmonia Orchestra
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- Christmas
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Christmas #3
You heard a piece of music from ‘The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy’, composed by Pyotr Tchaikovsky in the late 1800s. Did it make you imagine a fairy, or something light and delicate? Why might the music make you think of something like this? Try thinking about the ‘pitch’ of the notes and the…
