Dmitri SMIRNOV: MAGIC MUSIC BOX – Children Album for piano Op. 77 (1965-2003) 55'

Music-Boxes     /     High Index    Music: 1. Magic Music Box (click to see, play or free download the music)  click here for more A complete score is available from Meladina Press and also from members.sibeliusmusic.com/dmitrismirnov NOTE: These pieces were written between 1965 and 1993 (Some of them have been revised in 2003). Some of them have already been published  in different collections by Russian Music Publisers  "Muzyka" and "Sovetski Kompozitor". In 1993 at Keele 50 pieces have been selected, revised and entered into the collection "Magic Music Box".  The composition was dedicated to my children Philip and Alissa, who made beautiful illustrations to the each of them. E back to the List

© Philip Firsov: Cover Picture (1993)

CONTENTS:

VOLUME I   1. Magic Music Box    2. Autumn   3. Short Story    4. Morning   5. Chastooshka   6. Two Pipers   7. Puppet-Show   8. The Melancholic Minute    9. Jolly Game 10. The Evening Tale	VOLUME II 11. Lamentatiom (canon in third)  12. BACH (Canon in fourth) 13. Pirates' Dance (Canon in fifth) 14. Two Africans (Canon in sixth) 15. Fanfares (Canon in seventh) 16. Complaint (Mirror canon) 17. Fleeting Encounter (Retrograde Canon)  18. Round Dance (Perpetual canon in tritone) 19. The Little Sheppard (Soprano ostinato) 20. The Mermaid and Wood-Goblin (Contrast Polyphony)
VOLUME III 21. The Dancind Lesson 22. The Sombre Knight's  23. Song of the brook 24. The Night Watch 25. The Labyrinth 26. Humoresque 27. Evening 28. The Scorpion 29. Dance of the Raindrops  30. The Overgrown Pond	VOLUME IV 31. The Little Horseman 32. Ballerina 33. Toccatina 34. March of the Toy Soldiers 35. Sunny Day 36. Soldiers 37. Mummy's Lullaby 38. Operetta 39. Koshchey the Deadless 40. Dance of the Fool
VOLUME V 41. Merry-Go-Round 42. Prayer Song 43. Perpetual Motion 44. Elegy 45. Distant Chimes 46. Song Without Words 47. Chorale Prelude 48. The Guitar 49. The Sleeping Mirror 50. Crystal Cabinet	Score (12 pieces): Muzyka Publishers, Moscow, 1987  in the collection "Pieces by Contemporary Composers" Vol.9 (4 pieces): Muzyka Publishers, Moscow, 1978  in the collection "For Most Little Children" Vol.5 (5 canons): Sovetski Kompozitor Publishers, Moscow, 1979  in the collection "Polyphonic Pieces" Vol.2 (2 pieces): Sovetski Kompozitor Publishers, Moscow, 1981  in the collection "Polyphonic Pieces for Piano" Vol.2 (2 pieces): Sovetski Kompozitor Publishers, Moscow, 1985  in the collection "Polyphonic Pieces for Piano" (1 piece "Distant Chime"): Muzyka Publishers, Moscow, 1978  in the collection "Children's Pieces by Soviet Composers for Piano" Vol.13