Flight Of The Bumblebee Analysis

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The musical piece Flight of the Bumblebee is an orchestral interlude from opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan written by Rimsky-Korsakov in 1899 based on the poem of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin. It comes as the prelude to Act III, where a prince rescues a swan which is attacked by a bumble bee. The composer professionally used instruments of the orchestra to create pictures from the story. The musical piece is a programmatic music in ternary form that is representing the sound of a bumblebee.
The strings are heard buzzing hurriedly about at the outset, brilliantly conveying images of a busy bee racing about. Also, the music piece has a wide dynamic range which forms a feeling of a different distance the bee is on. Its vary from piano and

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