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Symphonic Dances (Rachmaninoff)
The ''Symphonic Dances'', Op. 45, is an orchestral suite in three movements. Completed in 1940, it is Sergei Rachmaninoff's last composition. The work summarizes Rachmaninoff's compositional output.
The work is fully representative of the composer's later style with its curious, shifting harmonies, the almost Prokofiev-like grotesquerie of the outer movements and the focus on individual instrumental tone colors throughout (highlighted by his use of an alto saxophone in the opening dance).〔Norris, ''New Grove, 2nd ed.'', 716.〕 The opening three-note motif, introduced quietly but soon reinforced by heavily staccato chords and responsible for much of the movement's rhythmic vitality, is reminiscent of the Queen of Shemakha's theme in Rimsky-Korsakov's opera ''The Golden Cockerel'',〔Harrison, 331.〕 the only music by another composer that he had taken out of Russia with him in 1917.
The ''Dances'' allowed him to indulge in a nostalgia for the Russia he had known, much as he had done in the Third Symphony,〔Maes, 272.〕 as well as to effectively sum up his lifelong fascination with ecclesiastical chants. In the first dance, he quotes the opening theme of his First Symphony, itself derived from motifs characteristic of Russian church music. In the finale he quotes both the ''Dies Irae'' and the chant "Blessed be the Lord" (''Blagosloven yesi, Gospodi'') from his ''All-Night Vigil''.〔
==Instrumentation==
The work is scored for an orchestra of piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, cor anglais, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle, tambourine, side drum, cymbals, bass drum, tamtam, xylophone, glockenspiel, tubular bells, harp, piano, and strings.
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