My favourite work from Tchaikovsky is the Nutcracker Suite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi_efzYcXGI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3CjBLrazE8
One of my favourite section in the piece is the Dance of the Merlitons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulPYzhdpStQ
Why I liked the piece?
I like this piece "Dance of the Merlitons" as this piece sounds cheerful, cheeky and playful. The melody is flowing, constantly moving from the major key to the minor key, and later back to major key again. This short segment of the Nutcracker Suite is in the ternary form. Hence it is in A-B-A. I like the main melody in A, where the melody of the flutes is playful and cheeky. There are use of syncopations and the accents played be the flutes also brings out the melody more. While the flutes plays the main melody at A, the strings plays the harmony. Bowing technique was used in the upper strings whereas plucking technique, also known as pizzicato, is used in the lower strings. There is also a short part where the basoon plays a solo, it sounded like a countermelody to me. At B, the brasses are introduced. The continuous crecendos and decrecendos carried out helps build the effect of rising and falling. The piece reverts back to A and ends of in the major key. Overall, the piece was smooth-flowing and the melody attracted me. Hence, I like this piece composed by Tchaikovsky.
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