Russian Sailors Dance (Gliere - Gelber)

General Info

Composer: Reinhold Gliere
Arranger: Dan Gelber
Year of Published: 2024
Duration: 00:02:17
Difficulty: Advanced
Publisher: J.W. Pepper
Cost: Score and Parts - $40.00   |   Score Only - $0.00

Instrumentation

Player 1: Glockenspiel
Player 2: Vibraphone 1
Player 3: Vibraphone 2
Player 4: Xylophone & Crotales
Player 5: Marimba 1
Player 6: Marimba 2
Player 7: Marimba 3
Player 8: Timpani
Player 9: Concert Snare Drum
Player 10: Bass Drum
Player 11: Cymbal
Player 12: Triangle
Player 13: Tambourine

Program Notes

The Russian Sailor's Dance is a popular song from Gliere's ballet The Red Poppy. Although the ballet is not often performed, this song has become a staple of orchestral and band concerts for years. The original ballet premiered in 1927. Even though Gliere wrote symphonies, chamber works and songs, this tune from the ballet is his most famous work.

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Arrangements for Percussion by this Author

Percussion Quartet Works

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Percussion Quintet Works

The Entertainer (Joplin - Gelber)
Minuet (Bach - Gelber)

Percussion Sextet Works

Dance of the Sugar-Plumb Fairy (Tchaikovsky - Gelber)
Dance of the Swans (Tchaikovsky - Gelber)
Hunter's Chorus (C.M von Weber - Gelber)
Invention no. 8 (Bach - Gelber)
Pavane for a Dead Princess (Ravel - Gelber)

Percussin Septet Works

Deus in Adjutorium (Pachelbel - Gelber)

Percussion Octet Works

2 Holiday Carols (Trad. - Gelber)
A Trio of Carols (Trad. - Gelber)
Air (Bach - Gelber)
African Carol (Trad. - Gelber)
Brasil (Barosso - Gelber)
Can Can (Bizet - Gelber)
Canon in D (Pachelbel - Gelber)
Childrens March (Grainger - Gelber)
Dargason from Suite #2 (Holst - Gelber)
Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart - Gelber)
Fugue in G Minor (Bach - Gelber)
Hanukah Time (Trad. - Gelber)
Morning from Peer Gynt Suite (Grieg - Gelber)
Spoon River (Grainger - Gelber)
Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven - Gelber)
Toreador March (Bizet - Gelber)
Twinkle Rhumba (Trad. - Gelber)
Waltz of the Flowers (Tchaikovsky - Gelber)

Percussion Nonet Works

Greenbushes (Trad. - Gelber)
Hallelujah Chorus (Handel - Gelber)
Jingle Bells (Pierpont - Gelber)
Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila (Glinka - Gelber)
Turkish March (Beethoven - Gelber)
William Tell (Rossini - Gelber)

10 Players Works

Colonel Bogey (Alford - Gelber)
Jesus, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach - Gelber)
Jingle Bells Cha Cha Cha (Pierpont - Gelber)
Song of the Blacksmith from Suite #2 (Holst - Gelber)
Songs of the Civil War (Trad. - Gelber)
Spinning Song (Ellmenreich - Gelber)

11 Players Works

Farandole (Bizet - Gelber)
Habenera/Carmen (Bizet - Gelber)
Horkstow Grange (Trad. - Gelber)
Hornpipe from Water Music (Handel - Gelber)
March from Suite #1 (Holst - Gelber)
March of the Safely Grazing Sheep (Bach - Gelber)
Procession of Bacchus from Sylvia (Delibes - Gelber)
The Stars and Stripes Forever (Sousa - Gelber)

12 Players Works

In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg - Gelber)
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Ukrainian Bell Carol (Leontovych - Gelber)

13 Players Works

Dance of the Tumblers (Korsakov - Gelber)
Handel In the Strand (Grainger - Gelber)
Russian Sailors Dance (Gliere - Gelber)