Arabian Dance

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

For alto sax and piano

Written in D minor, range D4 to C6

In The Nutcracker’s Land of Sweets, Coffee dances, slow and swaying, as if drifting up with the steam. Tchaikovsky based it on a Georgian lullaby.

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