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Flight of the bumblebee

Author: Eils
Date: 2001-03-13 10:49

Hi,
I've been trying to download the sheet music for Flight of the bumblebee from music-scores.com, but it hascn't been working, and after a bit of research a friend of mine told me that the PDF files just weren't there,perhaps because of copyright.Anyway, I'd really like this music, and being a poor student can't afford it!!!Can anyone give me pointers to similar sites where I can download this for free???Thanks a lot
Eils.

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RE: Flight of the bumblebee

Author: Mark Charette, Webmaster
Date: 2001-03-13 11:34

If it's under copyright then of course you wouldn't want to be breaking any laws ...

Perhaps you can find it in a library! They don't charge, or

perhaps you can skip a pizza and buy the (very inexpensive) music for it.

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RE: Flight of the bumblebee

Author: fasd
Date: 2001-03-13 22:56

if you're in high school or middle school or college or whatever, you can ask someone in the music dept. they have "special connections"

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RE: Flight of the bumblebee

Author: Corey
Date: 2001-03-13 23:13

go to musicstudents.com they have the flight of the bumble bee for FREE!

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RE: Flight of the bumblebee

Author: Corey
Date: 2001-03-13 23:46

i'm sorry they don't have flight of the bumble bee my mistake !

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RE: Flight of the bumblebee

Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2001-03-14 16:19

Flight of the Bumblebee comes from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Tale of the Tsar Sultan, which had its premiere in 1900. The composer died in 1906. See http://lucia.stanford.edu/opera/RimskyKorsakov/main.html. The music is in the public domain and can be freely performed, copied and arranged.

Sheetmusic Plus has Flight of the Bumblebee in multiple editions starting at $2.50. Any music store should have it in the piano, violin and flute sections, and probably the clarinet section, too. There's a MIDI file at http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/3606/sounds.html. Mytempo has the accompaniment http://www.mytempo.com/flute.htm.

Musicscores.com lists a free download of the sheet music, including a version for clarinet at http://www.music-scores.com/music-scores/rimsky.shtml. To read it in PDF format, you need the free Adobe Reader v. 4.0. The Adobe download site is at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/acrwin.htm. The graphics version works fine on my computer, but you need to get the free Scorch plug-in to view all the pages. There's a link to it on the Musicscores.com page.

Best regards.

Ken Shaw

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Re: Flight of the bumblebee

Author: buckeye75
Date: 2013-09-14 03:30

is this written for clarinet in more than one key?

Thanks

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Re: Flight of the bumblebee

Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2013-09-14 04:04

Yes, one is chromatic
E to C, and other edition is F# to D.

Bonade's edition is F# to D, and if I recall, it is in the original key.

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Re: Flight of the bumblebee

Author: buckeye75
Date: 2013-09-14 15:36

thanks for the info.

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Re: Flight of the bumblebee

Author: buckeye75
Date: 2013-09-14 16:00

What do you mean by "one is chromatic"

Thanks

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Re: Flight of the bumblebee

Author: Matt_Clarinet
Date: 2013-09-14 23:36

You can get it for $6.99 here:
http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/score/BumbleeCl.html

It is written in what seems to be the most commonly played key for Clarinet.

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Re: Flight of the bumblebee

Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2013-09-15 00:04

Matt, that version preview looks highly edited - wrong octave initially too

"Easy version"

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Re: Flight of the bumblebee

Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2013-09-15 00:05

Buckeye, my spacing line jumped - meant chromatic E to C

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Re: Flight of the bumblebee

Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2013-09-15 03:31

Just noticed that mytempo.com was mentioned in Kens above posting. That was my site

When Vivace/SmartMusic came about, I stopped making Accompaniments, as there was a format for them that was easy, and inexpensive.

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Re: Flight of the bumblebee

Author: TomA ★2017
Date: 2013-09-15 13:05

Here is a free Bb clarinet solo version:

http://www.free-scores.com/download-sheet-music.php?pdf=40183

Other arrangements are also available.

Tom

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