Sonatine For Alto Saxophone And Piano

Klassik

P.-M. Dubois: Sonatine For Alto Saxophone And Piano (Bu) (1)

P.-M. Dubois: Sonatine For Alto Saxophone And Piano (Bu) (2)

P.-M. Dubois: Sonatine For Alto Saxophone And Piano (Bu) (3)

P.-M. Dubois: Sonatine For Alto Saxophone And Piano (Bu) (4)

för:

Saxophone E-Flat and Piano

Utgåva:

Bok

Artikelnr.:

240291

Författare / kompositör:

Pierre-Max Dubois

Omfattning:

96 sidor

Förlag / Tillverkare:

Alphonse Leduc Éditions Musicales

Tillverkarens nr.:

AL23742

ISMN:

9790046237423

Beskrivning

French composer, Pierre Max Dubois (1930-1995) significantly contributed to the wind repertoire. Sonatine for Alto Saxophone and Piano was published in 1968 and remains prominent as a more unusualaddition to the ensemble repertoire.

Dubois' music is characteristically light-hearted with unusual harmonic and melodic textures. Sonatine reflects Dubois' compositionalcharacteristics with a typical performance lasting about eight minutes. Dubois' work is suitable for advanced performers, addressing virtuosic features, such as complex rhythms, particularly flourishingsemiquaverpassages, variations in articulation, chromaticism, and exploitation of the ensemble, among other aspects. Sonatine is essential to the advanced Alto Saxophone repertoire as Dubois' work makesfor an exciting, varied and enjoyable performance for players and audiences alike.