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What happens in the second act of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker?

Clara visits the land of the sweets with the prince

Nedezhda von Meck's relationship with Tchaikovsky was which?

patron

masque

staged dancing (in england)

Where did Tchaikovsky receive his first teaching post thanks to the recommendation of Anton Rubinstein?

Moscow Conservatory

Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker was choreographed by Marius Petipa.

TRU

Which best describes the expression in Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker?

quiet and mysterious

The form of both Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Trepak from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker is best outlined as which?

ABA

Tchaikovsky's ballets remain central to the repertory today.

TRU

The Nutcracker was based on a story written by E. T. A. Hoffmann.

TRU

Which of the following were famous ballets written by Tchaikovsky?

The Nutcracker Swan Lake Sleeping Beauty

--- became an independent dramatic form of the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly in France and Russia

ballet

Which best describes the tempo in Tchaikovsky's Trepak from The Nutcracker?

begins at lively tempo then is marked by accelandro

The eighteenth century saw the rise of ballet as an ---- art form. French ballet was preeminent in the early nineteenth century then ---- ballet flourished.

independent, Russian

celesta

main instrument in sugar plum fairy dance

ballet de cour

staged dancing (in france)

intermedio

staged dancing (in italy)

ballets of Russia consider tchinfvjfo's -- and -- central to the repotre

swan lake and nutcracker

The pas de deux, or dance for two, was developed by the choreographer Marius Petipa

tru

Ballet has been a part of theatrical entertainments since the Renaissance.

true