Saber Dance (Chatschaturjan)

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The Säbeltanz ( Armenian պար Սուսերով , Suserov par ) is a set of the ballet Gayaneh the Soviet - Armenian composer Khachaturian . The first performance took place on December 9, 1942 in Perm . Depending on the respective interpretation, the saber dance only lasts about 2:27 minutes.

The saber dance was composed as a dance by the Kurds . It is danced in ballet at the festival to rebuild the cotton granary that was destroyed by the enemy attack. While the ballet outside the Soviet Union was little known and even today in Armenia has gained little notoriety, was and the Saber Dance contrast, is widely liked and concerts played by numerous musicians of jazz and pop music gecovert and used in many modern entertainment media.

Receptions

Cor de Groot recorded a jazz piano version of it on November 20, 1958. The British blues rock band Love Sculpture was able to place itself in the British, German and Swiss charts with its interpretation of the saber dance , which was also performed in fast-paced Presto . In Germany, the interpretations of Theo Schumann Combo (1969), the Puhdys (1971, released 2009), electra (1976) and Klaus Wunderlich (1983) are known. The saber dance appears in the feature film Eins, Zwei, Drei by Billy Wilder (1961) and in Scoop - Der Knüller by Woody Allen (2006).

The saber dance is still used today as a popular musical background in countless cartoons and animated films . It is preferably used in bizarre, often seemingly ridiculous car chases, but then not infrequently in a shortened version. Well-known cartoon series that play the saber dance especially in older episodes include the Looney Tunes and older Mickey Mouse cartoons. The piece is also used in computer games, well-known examples of this include the arcade game Road Runner from 1985 and the computer role-playing game Final Fantasy IV from 1991.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hubert Wißkirchen , Visualization as an aid in hearing education and analysis , 1993, p. 1.
  2. ↑ Bernard Deyries, Denys Lemery, Michael Sadler: The Story of Music in Cartoon . Arco, New York 1983, ISBN 9780668055925 , pp. 68, 70 & 115.
  3. ↑ Road Runner on arcade-history.com (English).
  4. ↑ Description of the contents of Final Fantasy IV on square-enix.com (Japanese).