The Nutcracker: Complete Ballet in Full Score (Dover Music Scores)
by Music Scores, Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
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Author: Music Scores, Peter Ilyitch TchaikovskyBrand: Alfred Publishing
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-09-16
ISBN: 0486438368
Number of pages: 528
Model: 06-438368
Publisher: Dover Publications
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- Full Score
- By Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Format Full Score
Book Reviews of The Nutcracker: Complete Ballet in Full Score (Dover Music Scores)
Book Review: Finally, an affordable complete Nutcracker!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have long awaited this publication. Shortly after I purchased the Nutcracker Suite from Dover 6 years ago, I wrote them multiple times asking them to consider publishing the complete work, but I was disappointed until now.
A reprint of an "Authoritative Early [Russian?] Edition," the score is very pleasingly engraved, close-spaced but not overly crowded. In the front, there is a translation of all the Russian notes that occur in the text, and all of the French stage directions are translated in footnotes at the bottom of the pages. Though it is over 500 pages, Dover has used paper thinner than their norm (yet with virtually no bleed-through), so the book is not too thick. It is, however, a little floppier than most of my other Dover scores. That, though, is a very small price to pay finally to own a full score of this most-popular ballet!
Finally, I can study the orchestration in some of the gems not found in the suite, such as the Waltz of the Snowflakes, Chocolate (Spanish Dance), and others--in an edition that is both affordable and well-made. I had been able to borrow a copy of the 2-volume paperback Kalmus edition (atrociously expensive for a student's budget) from my college library, and I was shocked at how poorly it was bound. The spine cracked after one or two GENTLE usings and pages were about to fall out. Such will not be the case with this Dover edition. I look forward to many years of pleasant study and enjoyment with this volume.
Summary of The Nutcracker: Complete Ballet in Full Score (Dover Music Scores)
A masterpiece of orchestration, it features the historic first use of the celesta in Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy and is essential study for students of orchestral combinations and effects. Musicians will rejoice in this publication of previously difficult-to-find favorites such as Waltz of the Snowflakes and Spanish Dance (Chocolate).
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