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Nasreddin Is Coming to Town

Electronic Art Music, National Flavor / accordion, animation, cartoon, comedy, ensembles, green tag, grotesque, honky-tonk, medium tempo, percussion, piano plus, playful, theatrical

“…Sufi and wise man, remembered for his funny stories and anecdotes. He appears in thousands of stories, sometimes witty, sometimes wise, but often, too, a fool or the butt of a joke. (…) Nasreddin often appears as a whimsical character of a large Turkish, Persian, Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Judeo-Spanish, Kurdish, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, and Urdu folk tradition of vignettes, not entirely different from zen koans”. Nasreddin – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasreddin

Accordion, honky-tonk, drums, percussion // Length 2:53, 88 bpm, 4/4

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Bumblebee… or a Mosquito?

Covers, Electronic Art Music / animation, comedy, ensembles, fast, funny, grotesque, lively, parody, red tag, synthesizers, theatrical

This a parody on a very famous classical piece ‘Flight of the Bumblebee” by N.Rimsky-Korsakov. Paradoxically, it was also inspired by the imagery and feel of a brilliant Russian animation (“claymation”) “Yesteryear’s Snow Was Falling”, which has became classic in Russia since its creation in 1983.

Knowing about the Bumblebee origins, you can easily guess what’s going on in the piece. (If you are familiar with the plot of the original tale, you’ll find the end a bit different, though. ) If you listen to it in headphones, the effect will be at its best. – Synthesizers, accordion, honky-tonk, insect killer racket, airplane, crowd… // Length 1:29, 140 bpm, 4/4

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Siciliana

Art Music / blue tag, fast, festive, lively, masquerade, oboe, orchestra, picturesque, symphony, theatrical, winds, woodwinds

Blue tag = for a demonstration only; not for sale. This is the final movement of the suite for oboe and orchestra. This piece was conceived as a scene from a festival, masquerade. The crowd feels exited, dancing and intermingling. Suddenly, Pierrot occurred, but even his plaintive theme ends in lightful major with a hope for love, and the mass happily rushes to party again.

Acoustic oboe (Eugene Sidorov), symphony orchestra // Length 4:22, 94 bpm, 6/8

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Reminiscences of the Ballet

Art Music / ballet, blue tag, dance, fast, lively, oboe, orchestra, picturesque, symphony, theatrical, winds, woodwinds

Blue tag = for a demonstration only; not for sale. This piece was conceived as a movement of a suite for oboe and orchestra (III, Scherzo). Its dancy character and theatrical imagery gives a positive association with a scene from a ballet. Lush orchestration helps create a powerful and festive climax.

The excerpt between 1:01 and 1:14 strongly associates with a festive event like a victory or a massive celebration, and could, probably, be used separately.

Acoustic oboe (Eugene Sidorov), symphony orchestra, carillon // Length 02:02, 184 bpm, 4/4

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