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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: Saxophone, use of -
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.213031.1921@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:30:31 GMT
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- jwenger@ulci06.unil.ch () writes:
- :
- : Dear net.folks,
- :
- : Friends and I were chating about music in general, and saxophones in
- : particular. No one could mention a piece of classical music, orchestral,
- : chamber or other, where one or more sax were used. Can you?
- : I'll post the consolidated list of your answers, as soon as I get something
- : publishable.
-
- Looking briefly in my Oxford companion I find: Bizet's L'Arlesienne
- (how could I forget that?), Kodaly's Hary janos, Vaughan Williams's
- Job - all alto sax.
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- VW's 4th symphony (should have remembered this too) and Prokofiev's
- Romeo and Juliet - tenor sax.
-
- All the above use only one sax; d'Indy scored for more than one sax in
- various orchestral and choral pieces, and Stockhausen wrote for alto
- tenor and baritone in Carre. (Actually - I wonder if he did or whether
- Cornelius Cardew, who actually wrote the piece from Stickhausen's
- sketches did?)
-
- I was right - Debyussy's Rhapsodie (1919) ius for alto sax, there are
- also concertos by Glazunov and Ibert (Concertino da camera), and the
- Scherzo humoresque by Jean Francaix, written for Marcel Mule's Quatuor
- de Saxophones de Paris.
-
- I trust you and your friends all feel suitably sheepish?
-
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- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
- Email: (dbarker@spang.camosun.bc.ca)
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