Drolleries - Saxophone Quartet

Drolleries

Contemporary, Jazz, Latin
Humorous, entertaining and challenging!
Composer
Christie, Michael
Instrumentation
SATB
Duration
17 minutes
Difficulty
7, 8

£24.99

Description

From the composer:

A ‘drollery’ is an amusing little drawing in the margins of a medieval manuscript. Like this partita, they are very much tongue-in-cheek. I was initially inspired to write the first movement for a competition in which the piece had to last just one minute.

The other short movements followed naturally, and before long I had a complete partita, much to my surprise. Certain Baroque references will be noticed, such as Fughetta’bout it, Au Courant and Rondeau, but the piece ranges broadly in style, encompassing along the way swing, Italian and Hispanic influences.

The E-Edition PDF bundle comes with the following:

Score
Soprano Saxophone
Alto Saxophone
Tenor Saxophone
Baritone Saxophone

 

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Samples performed by the Lucerna Saxophone Quartet.