This guide follows Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (1936) in one part.
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Follow all 5 sections as they play
One of music, told in sections. In Introducing the characters, each is heard in turn: Peter on strings, the bird on flute, the duck on oboe, the cat on a low clarinet, grandfather on bassoon. Then comes The story develops, and after it Catching the wolf. The Triumphal Procession and leads the captured wolf away, and a follows. The tale ends with the narrator's remark that the duck can still be heard quacking in the wolf's belly.
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
ProkofievPiano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, Op. 10ProkofievPiano Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14ProkofievToccata in D minor, Op. 11ProkofievMazurka from Ten Pieces, Op. 12 No. 4ProkofievPiano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16ProkofievPiano Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28ProkofievPiano Sonata No. 4 in C minor, Op. 29ProkofievSymphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25ProkofievPiano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26ProkofievPiano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82Path 27
Twelve directions the century took, from Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht of 1899 to Piazzolla's tango of 1982.
Schoenberg → Ives → Bartók → Holst → Gershwin → Barber → Prokofiev → Copland → Ligeti → Górecki → Piazzolla
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