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...
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