Stephen Smith
Vancouver pianist, composer/arranger, choral conductor, teacher, and writer on music
Fugue for Saxophone Quartet
SM-000510053
| Composer | Stephen Smith |
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| Genre |
Classical / Fugue |
| Instrumentation |
Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone |
| Scored for | Quartet |
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| Type of score | Full score, Parts |
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| Key |
D minor |
| Duration |
2'45" |
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| Difficulty |
Advanced |
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| Year of composition |
1985 |
| Description: |
A whimsically thorough-going and virtuosic fugue dating from the composer's student days. (The subject was originally a harmonization exercise assigned by one of his professors!) It includes quotations from famous French organ works, and its mock-serious tone parodies the academic rigidity and musical aridity of the fugues churned out year after year for the sole purpose of passing an examination at the Paris Conservatoire.
$20 gets you all the performance materials: a transposed score, a score in C, and parts for soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones. |
Upload date: 09 Jul 2020
