The violin melody of this short A minor piece opens with a two-octave chromatic descent starting an octave above open E, and consists almost entirely of sixteenth notes.
The violin melody of this short A minor piece opens with a two-octave chromatic descent starting an octave above open E, and consists almost entirely of sixteenth notes. The middle of this piece is marked a pizzicato A minor arpeggio, and the main melody primarily consists of extremely fast chromatic motions around E, and increases in octave after each bridge. It depicts Prince Guidon after he has been transformed by a swan and is now speeding through the air to reach the court of Tsar Sultan. FTP, name this Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov piece that mimics the frenetic buzzing of an insect.
The violin melody of this short A minor piece opens with a two-octave chromatic descent starting an octave above open E, and consists almost entirely of sixteenth notes.
{Flight of the Bumblebee}