About this minute
- Title
- Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
- Creator
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Performer
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Contributor
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Year
- 1944 – 2004
- Collections
- BBC Proms 2019 , Collection 1
- Related resource guides
- Compositions , Brass instruments , Celeste , Metals , Music , Orchestra , Orchestra , Percussion , Pitch , Stringed instruments , Timbre
Collection 1 #40
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…
