Title: Danse des petits cygnes

Arranger:Tong Leung-tak

Year: [1978]

Genre:

• Large ensemble
• Arrangement
• Chinese orchestral music

Call No.: SC1028

Description: "Danse des petits cygnes" ("Dance of the Little Swans"), for which Tong Leung-tak is credited as the orchestrator, was adapted from the second act of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. It features the dizi and the erhu for the melody while using the guan, the timpani, and several other instruments for the accompaniment. It is in many ways similar to Peng Xiuwen's earlier modern Chinese orchestral version of the same dance; both versions involve a transposition from the original's F# minor to B minor.

Note:

• Orchestral arrangement of ballet music "Swan Lake"
• Certain instrument(s) arranged by Tong Leung-tak

Instrumentation: qu di (2), guan (1), yangqin (1), liuqin (1), pipa (1), zhong ruan (1), da ruan (1), sanxian (1), timpani (1), gaohu (1), erhu ( 2), zhonghu (1), cello (1), double bass (1)