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Jeu de Cartes
Subtitle: SATB Saxophone Quartet and Wind Band
General Info
Year: 2013
Duration: c. 21:00
Difficulty: V (quartet) / IV (ensemble) (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Minor Scale Music
Cost: Score and Parts - €250.00 | Score Only - €70.00
Movements may be purchased separately.
Movements
1. Queen of Hearts - 6:40
2. Jack of Spades - 4:05
3. 10 of Diamonds - 4:24
4. The Fool - 5:35
Instrumentation
Full Score
Solo SATB Saxophone Quartet
Piccolo (optional)
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
E-flat Clarinet
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B-flat Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto clarinet
B-flat Bass clarinet
E-flat Contra-alto Clarinet (optional)
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet (optional)
E-flat Alto Saxophones I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Piano/Harpsichord
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Castanet
- Conga
- Crash Cymbal
- Drum Set
- Finger Cymbal
- Sleigh Bells
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Temple Block
- Triangle
- Wood Block
- Vibra Slap
Cello (optional)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Jeu de Cartes, written for the Berlin saxophone quartet Clair-obscur, depicts four different characters of playing cards, all of them with a different saxophone in the frontline. Queen of Hearts is stately and sensual; Jack of Spades, as macho as can be; 10 of Diamonds, playful and sexy; and ultimately The Fool... is he as foolish as he pretends to be?... Virtuoso solo parts include some comedy and pantomime.
The Jack of Spades movement features the tenor saxophone and gets the main part in a rough blues improvisation. As the remaining soloists come in, the soprano plays a bit more to the front before returning to the bluesy shuffle featuring the tenor saxophone.
- Program Note from VanderCook College of Music Symphonic Band concert program, 16 December 2016
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Banda Unión Musical de Meaño (Diego Javier Lorente López, conductor; Thesis Quartet) - 2018
- VanderCook College of Music (Chicago, Ill.) Symphonic Band (Charles Menghini, conductor) - 16 December 2016 (2016 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Danzas del Inferno (2008)
- De Bello Gallico (2007)
- Drunken Sailor (2006)
- Froghitters’ Fantasy, A (2005)
- Jeu de Cartes (2013)
- Krka. See: Symphony No. 1
- Mutations (2017)
- Oh Happy Day (2004)
- Semper Plus Ultra (2013)
- Sinfonietta No. 1 (2018)
- Symphony No. 0 (2006)
- Symphony No. 1 (2017)
Resources
- Bart Picqueur, Wikipedia Accessed 11 December 2016
- Perusal score