Euphonium
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Flight of the Bumblebee
Composer: Rimsky-Korsakov Arranger: Oliver, Jonathan
Instrumentation: Quartet Instruments: Euphonium
Genre: ClassicalArranger Jonathan Oliver says, “Flight of the Bumblebee, written by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, was created as an orchestral interlude during Act 3 of his opera The Tale of Tsar Sultan. During this moment, a magical Swan-Bird changes Prince Gvidon into a bumblebee so that he can fly away to visit his father, who does not realize that his son is alive. The music has become more known as a virtuoso solo work for all forms of musical instruments and has even been included into other forms of media, such as film and television.
For this arrangement, I decided to divide the technical demand of the solo work into a quartet, with each part having no more than four measures of the melody at a time. The musical demand of the work now lies with the performers’ ability to make the faster sixteenth note patterns sound as a single line instead of four individual lines.”
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Flight of the Bumblebee
Composer: Rimsky-Korsakov Arranger: Doughty, Bryan
Instrumentation: Quartet Instruments: Euphonium
Genre: Romantic, VirtuosicFeaturing all four Euphoniums, this arrangement passes the melody around to challenge all of the players. Learn MoreUpdate Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.As low as $15.00