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Dranon of their character Baihu capturing the elusive firebird. In exchange for agreeing to let her fly free, she has given him a magic feather, with which he can summon her once at any time.
The whole pas de deux is available to watch on youtube: [click]
I also recommend just listening to the whole firebird suite (its by Stravinsky), as I've always been rather fond of this music. :)
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Dranon of their character Baihu capturing the elusive firebird. In exchange for agreeing to let her fly free, she has given him a magic feather, with which he can summon her once at any time.The whole pas de deux is available to watch on youtube: [click]
I also recommend just listening to the whole firebird suite (its by Stravinsky), as I've always been rather fond of this music. :)
Original sketch: [click]
Commissions currently closed - [click]
Queue - [click]
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Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
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File Size 1.45 MB
Aaaaah, Firebird! *geeks out hard*
Incidentally, I actually prefer the whole ballet to the suites, particularly the 1919 suite that everyone knows. You miss some of the best music of the ballet in the suites, alas.
Anyway, I love the way the Firebird is drawn here. Poised and beautiful, yet also seeming to be on fire. It's just all mixed together beautifully here!
Incidentally, I actually prefer the whole ballet to the suites, particularly the 1919 suite that everyone knows. You miss some of the best music of the ballet in the suites, alas.
Anyway, I love the way the Firebird is drawn here. Poised and beautiful, yet also seeming to be on fire. It's just all mixed together beautifully here!
Oh really? I'm not very music smart or anything, I've just always liked the songs haha. I know it from the ballet first since that's my background. We would get copies of CDs from our studio to practice with so except when it comes on the radio I guess I'd be listening to the ballet version. Which section is left out?
Thank you very much, also!
Thank you very much, also!
It's funny that everyone mentions "Firebird Suite": Stravinsky produced three different suites from the original Firebird throughout his lifetime, and not all of them are exactly the same, so that particular piece actually has three different versions (dating from 1911, 1919, and 1945).
As for the music that is cut, that depends on the suite. (For ease of reference, all section titles are referred to how they're labelled in the score of the complete ballet.) The one thing that is the same across all the suites is that they all cut everything between the Khorovod and the Infernal Dance, and none of them mention the Death of Katschei (which falls between the Berceuse and Finale). 1911 cuts a lot of transitional material between the larger numbers and pares the opening ten minutes down, and then completely cuts the Berceuse and Finale (although the one time I did the 1911 suite we added both back in with the 1911 orchestration). In terms of instrumentation, though, 1911 is identical to the ballet. 1919 (which is the most-frequently performed iteration of Firebird) pares the intro even further down than the 1911 suite does, additionally cuts the Supplication of the Firebird (which is part of the pas de deux you featured above) and the Princesses' Game with the Golden Apples, but restores the Berceuse and Finale. 1919 also greatly reduces the orchestration, paring it down from the large orchestra of the original to a more standard-size orchestra. The 1945 suite restores both movements that were left out of the 1919 suite and writes new transitional material between those movements, but is otherwise functionally identical to the 1919 suite.
So yeah, that's the sitch on the Firebird Suite. This has been your daily dose of musical nerdiness.
As for the music that is cut, that depends on the suite. (For ease of reference, all section titles are referred to how they're labelled in the score of the complete ballet.) The one thing that is the same across all the suites is that they all cut everything between the Khorovod and the Infernal Dance, and none of them mention the Death of Katschei (which falls between the Berceuse and Finale). 1911 cuts a lot of transitional material between the larger numbers and pares the opening ten minutes down, and then completely cuts the Berceuse and Finale (although the one time I did the 1911 suite we added both back in with the 1911 orchestration). In terms of instrumentation, though, 1911 is identical to the ballet. 1919 (which is the most-frequently performed iteration of Firebird) pares the intro even further down than the 1911 suite does, additionally cuts the Supplication of the Firebird (which is part of the pas de deux you featured above) and the Princesses' Game with the Golden Apples, but restores the Berceuse and Finale. 1919 also greatly reduces the orchestration, paring it down from the large orchestra of the original to a more standard-size orchestra. The 1945 suite restores both movements that were left out of the 1919 suite and writes new transitional material between those movements, but is otherwise functionally identical to the 1919 suite.
So yeah, that's the sitch on the Firebird Suite. This has been your daily dose of musical nerdiness.
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