Swan Lake is in several movements, and what are the dances for each of them

Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake, 4 acts, op.20, composed in 1876. This is the first dance music made by Tchaikovsky, based on folklore, the plot is: Princess Ojeta was turned into a white swan by a demon on the shores of Swan Lake. Prince Siegfried travels to Swan Lake and falls y in love with Ojeta. On the night the prince chooses a bride, the devil has his daughter, the Black Swan, disguise herself as Ojeta to deceive the prince. The prince is almost deceived, but eventually realizes in time and fights the demon, killing it. The White Swan returns to her original form as a princess and is united with the prince in a happy ending.

Subsequent generations based on the music of this dance, and later selected a set of dance music, ****6 songs:

1. Scene, selected from the final music of Act 1. To celebrate the prince's coming of age, a joyous banquet is held in his honor, and a flock of swans suddenly flies through the sky, arousing the prince's thoughts of hunting.

2. Round Dance. The music of Act 1, Scene 2, the dance song danced by the villagers to please the prince.

3. Swan Dance, from Act 2, the 4th song in a group called "Swan Dances" - 4 Little Swans.

4. Scene, Act 2, immediately after the "Little Swan Dance" music, Siegfried fell in love at first sight with Ojeta, the two are full of lyrical atmosphere of the duo dance music.

5. Hungarian Chardash. In Act 3, the first of a group of songs known as the "Characteristic Dance", at the party where the prince chooses a bride, the guests of various countries show various national styles of dance.

6. Scenes from Act 4, Scene 2, and the finale of the Ode. Ojeta, filled with tears when she learns that the prince has fallen in love with the Black Swan, runs back to tell her female companions and bid them farewell. She feels that it is better to die in the lake rather than be a slave to the Devil forever, the Devil returns and the storm comes. It finally turns to the theme of the carol, with the prince appearing, and ends with a song celebrating love's final triumph over death and the triumph of the devil in a triumph of triumph.

The music of Swan Lake is like a lyrical poem with romantic colors, and the music of each scene is extremely good at writing the scene and promoting the dramatic conflicts, as well as delineating the characters' personalities and hearts, which has a profound symphonic nature. The music of these dance dramas, full of poetic and dramatic power, and with a high degree of symphonic development, is the result of the author's major reform of ballet music, thus becoming an epoch-making work in the history of the development of dance dramas. Many of these music is the world's best works, here can only choose a few of the famous to be introduced.

The overture of the opera begins with a soft tune played by the oboe to introduce the story, which is a variation of the swan theme, and it outlines the moving and tragic picture of the girl who has been transformed into a swan by an evil spell (Fragment 1). The most familiar part of the piece is the music at the end of Act I. This is the celebration of the Prince's Bar Mitzvah. This scene is a grand ball celebrating the prince's coming of age, and the music consists mainly of a variety of gorgeous, bright and passionate dance music. At the end of the first act, a flock of swans appears in the night sky, and this is the first time that the theme of swans appears in the music, which is full of tender beauty and sadness, accompanied by harp and violin trills, and played by oboe and strings successively (Fragment 2). The "Hungarian Dance", that is, the Hungarian folk dance of Chardash. The first half of the music is soothing and sad, such as the preparation before the dance (clip 3), and the second half of the music has a strong rhythm, showing the roughness of the dancers, and it is a frenzied dance music (clip 4). Spanish Dance", the music is rich in Spanish national flavor, the accompaniment of the Spanish rattles is bright and colorful, which adds to the national characteristics of the music. The first half of the music is passionate and exuberant, with a warm atmosphere (Fragment 5), while the second half is full of singing and melody (Fragment 6). Napoli" is a very famous Italian style dance music, the whole dance music with trumpet as the main player, lively music, the first half of the smooth, the second half of the tempo is getting faster and faster, the atmosphere is getting more and more enthusiastic, it is a Tarantella customary dance music (clip 7). The Dance of the Four Little Swans is also one of the most popular dances in the program, with lively music and clean rhythms, depicting the little swans playing around the lake in a simple, moving and idyllic poetic manner (clip 8).