NUTCRACKER Big Easy Solo Flute Music: Selected Works from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker Ballet Suite Op. 71a

This book features selected works from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker Ballet Suite Op. 71A composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and edited by Maestro Bobby Ramirez for the intermediate solo Flute player presenting an amalgamation of the main melodies for each piece of music in a simplified style. While the original notes of each piece can generally be consider technically challenging for most musicians, this book is a helpful practice resource featuring bigger notes and staff to facilitate better understanding and reading. Except for Waltz of the Flowers, notes are presented in double their value from the original musical works. This book is a starting point that can serve as a daily training manual for flutists who wish to familiarize his/herself with Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, as well as for those who are committed to mastery on the flute. The repertoire is as follows: Miniature Overture Marche Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Russian Dance (Trepak) Arabian Dance Chinese Dance Dance of the Reed Pipes Waltz of the Flowers Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (May 7, 1840 – November 6, 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, the Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, several symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin.