Ryukuan Fantasy for Saxophone Quartet
This work may also be found under the spelling Ryukyuan Fantasy.
General Info
Year: 1997 / 1999
Duration: c. 4:11
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Two pianos eight hands
Publisher: Ito Music, through Bravo Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - 3,000 yen; (digital) - 3,000 yen
Instrumentation
Full Score
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Originally sung in a slow cantabile style, this exciting musical arrangement, based on the Okinawan folksong Asadoya Yunta, has an energetic rhythmic drive and momentum. The original version was for two pianos with eight hands and was commissioned by the Yo-gen-kai Association in March, 1997. It was premiered by the Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts professor Setsuko Iwasaki and her students.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
- Video: Saxophone Quartet Adam
- Audio CD: Masato Kumoi Saxophone Quartet - 2008
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Masato Kumoi Saxophone Quartet (Japan) - 6 January 2017 (George Mason University)
- Tsukuba (Ibaraki, Japan) Saxophone Quartet – 23 December 2011
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Adagio for Band (2006)
- A la Suite Classique (1996)
- As Time Is Passing On (2000)
- Carmen Fantasy (as arranger) (1875/2009)
- Choral Fantasy (2002)
- Cioccolata d'amore
- Concertino for piano and band (Ito) (2007)
- Concerto for Tsugaru-Shamisen and Band (2013)
- Diferencias on an Old Spanish Song (2020)
- Evocation (Ito)
- Fanfares for National Athletic Meet at Fukushima
- Fantasia Classica (1992)
- Fantasia on a Bach Chorale Prelude (2002/2013)
- Fantasy Variations (2004/2012)
- Festal Ballade for Band (2016)
- Festal Scenes (1986)
- Festeggiamo e Cantiamo, Musica Festiva per Banda
- Fuji, Symphonic Sketch for Band (1992)
- Funa-Uta (1993/1999)
- Gloriosa ("Gururiyoza") (1990/2013)
- Go For Broke (2000)
- Hamamatsu Overture
- Hanyang Forever! (2010)
- Kokiriko alla Marcia (1999)
- La Follia nel Bosco (2013)
- La Vita (1998)
- Liturgia Sinfonica
- Maiko Spring March
- March 'Over the Century'
- March 'Over the Wind'
- March 'The Three Tops Hill'
- March, Wind & Sun
- Meguru Kisetsu ni
- Melodies for Wind Ensemble
- Morning Songs in Hiroshima (2009)
- Mt. Fuji March (2003)
- On the March (1978/1991)
- Pacem et gloriam pro nobis
- Peace, Peace, so Sing the Birds (2018)
- Piano Concerto (Ito)
- The Planets
- Preludio Celebrativo
- Progress
- Rag-Time-March
- Rapsodia di Toyama
- Rapsodia Formosa (1992)
- Remembrance II
- Ryukuan Fantasy for Band (1997/1998/2013)
- Ryukuan Fantasy for Saxophone Quartet (1997/1999)
- The Seashell Song (2012)
- Sinfonia Singaporiana (2005)
- Solo Una Volta! (2013)
- Soma Festival March
- Soma Festival March No.2
- Sonata Classica (1996)
- Tableau
- Taiwanese Posy (2007)
- That Which He Taught Us (2015)
- That Which He Taught Us (Baritone and Band) (2015/2016)
- Time into Music (2018)
- Variations from the Northern Sea (1993)
Resources
None discovered thus far.