Ex. 4-11: Orientale
César Cui
Key: B♭/GmTime: 6/8Kaleidoscope (Op.50)
No. 9 from César Cui's Kaleidoscope (Op. 50), a collection of 24 short pieces for violin and piano composed in 1893.
The melody is based on a Serbian folk song known as "The Bright Sun." The same melody was also used by Tchaikovsky in his Slavonic March and by Rimsky-Korsakov in his Serbian Fantasy.