Don Quixote ballet music
Don Quixote ballet music
Does anyone have the ballet music to Don Quixote by Leon Minkus? Also, is there a piano arrangement for the music?
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Re: Don Quixote ballet music
Piano arrangement is up.
It is from Sibley and apparently was scanned from a very old and very scratched microfilm, so if any of my more clever colleagues can make it prettier and easier to read, it would be much appreciated.
Aldona
It is from Sibley and apparently was scanned from a very old and very scratched microfilm, so if any of my more clever colleagues can make it prettier and easier to read, it would be much appreciated.
Aldona
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Re: Don Quixote ballet music
There has never been an official published orchestral score of Don Quixote, as is the case with many other 19th-century ballets like Giselle, Coppelia and others. When ballet companies perform DQ, they often get the score from another company and make revisions. The Bolshoi's (arguably an Urtext) and the Maryinsky company's versions differ considerably. See Wikipedia article for an overview of the various productions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote_(ballet)
San Francisco Ballet performed DQ a couple years ago using a score that came from the Bolshoi. It's mostly hand-copied.
Incidentally, Aldona: the "flute" in your signature is more likely to be an aulos (see Wikipedia again), a twin-pipe reed instrument that probably sounded more like a high-pitched bagpipe than a flute. "Aulos" is often mistranslated as "flute."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote_(ballet)
San Francisco Ballet performed DQ a couple years ago using a score that came from the Bolshoi. It's mostly hand-copied.
Incidentally, Aldona: the "flute" in your signature is more likely to be an aulos (see Wikipedia again), a twin-pipe reed instrument that probably sounded more like a high-pitched bagpipe than a flute. "Aulos" is often mistranslated as "flute."