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Stravinsky Firebird Scene 2

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The Firebird scene 2 is a ballet based on an old Russian folk tale composed by Russian composer, Igor Stravinsky in year 1910. It was a combination of story and music and was composed in a form of suite where the musical work would be linked thematically according to several shorter pieces. The features of folk-songs normally are of romantic period and by using the symphony in E flat, Stravinsky has successfully pushed the ideas of rhythm and harmony into the modern era. This ballet was written for a large symphony orchestra which include the section of string, brass, woodwind and percussion instrument. Musical sound have four main categories which include pitch dynamic, tone color and duration. At first, the ballet start with continuous sounding
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