Flight of the Bumblebee
Written for the opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, this whirlwind of chromatic sixteenth notes has become the ultimate showpiece of speed for almost every instrument.
The opening, in notation
The first bars of Flight of the Bumblebee, rendered from a public-domain score. As a public-domain work, you're free to play, arrange and share it — or transcribe your own recording below.
Playing Flight of the Bumblebee
It's a study in velocity — a near-continuous chromatic run. As a fast, single-line perpetuum mobile it's a striking test of how cleanly rapid passages come out in notation.
How to get Flight of the Bumblebee sheet music
LoveMyScore transcribes audio into notation, so you can turn a recording — or your own performance — of Flight of the Bumblebee into a playable score. Choose violin, piano and you get sheet music plus MIDI and MusicXML you can edit in any notation app or DAW. As a public-domain work, you're free to arrange and share it.