Baron Samedi's Sarabande (and Soft Shoe)
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General Info
Year: 2005
Duration: c. 6:40
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Piquant Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) – Rental ($300.00) | Score Only (print) - $55.00
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Commissioned by the Tennessee Tech University Wind Ensemble, Joseph Hermann, Conductor.
- Program Note from publisher
Baron Samedi’s Sarabande (and Soft Shoe) is one of four works based on related voodoo characters. Baron Samedi is the guardian of the crossroads between the living and the departed. Like many other of his compositions, the piece is a variation on a theme set in a familiar dance form, the “sarabande.” The sarabande evolved in the Baroque era and is characterized by tempo, meter, and rhythm. Capturing the different tasks assigned to this baron, he is portrayed as being “not quite tied to Earth” musically by the theme being scored primarily for woodwinds with no supporting bass accompaniment. Large chromatic sections give the listener a sense of uneasiness and only further enhances this musical instability. Toward the end, a “jazz band” takes over with the same tune presented in sarabande, only cleverly distorted almost beyond recognition.
- Program Note from Lone Star Wind Orchestra program notes, 6 October 2013
Commercial Discography
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.) Wind Symphony (James Spinazzola, conductor) – 18 November 2016
Works for Winds by This Composer
- After Hafiz (2016)
- Amber Sky
- Baron Cimetiere's Mambo (2004)
- Baron Piquant on Pointe (2011)
- Baron La Croix's Shuffle (2007)
- Baron Samedi's Sarabande (and Soft Shoe) (2005)
- Bum's Rush (1994)
- Chant and Hymn for Our Lady
- Circa 1600 (2018)
- Cloudless Day, Bitter Sky (2002)
- "Come Memory..." (2002)
- Concerto in One Movement for Bass Trombone (1979)
- Court Music (2005)
- Don't You See? (2001)
- Effulgent Light (2017)
- Exhilaration and Cry (2008)
- Fantasy on "In Dulci Jubilo" (2015)
- Fantasy on "La Golondrina" (2003)
- Fantasy on Mr. Hyde's Song (1998)
- Fantasy Variations (1927/1998)
- Farewell to Gray (2001)
- Fayetteville Bop (2002)
- From "An Alabama Songbook" (2007)
- Honey in the Rock (2008)
- JS Dances (2003)
- J'ai été au bal (1999)
- Kentucky Harmony (2000)
- Let Evening Come (Grantham) (2014)
- Lone Star Twister (2008)
- Music for the Blanton (2006)
- Northern Celebration (2001)
- Phantasticke Spirites (2002)
- Shenandoah (2017)
- Southern Harmony (1998)
- Wondrous Love (2008)
- Sol y Sombra (2014)
- Spangled Heavens (2010)
- Starry Crown (2007)
- Symphony for Winds and Percussion (2009)
- Stomp (Grantham) (2009)
- Summer of 2008 (2008)
- Thunderbird
- Trumpet Gloria (2006)
- Tuba Concerto (Grantham) (2012)
- An Uneasy Mrch
- Variations on an American Cavalry Song (2001)
- What Comes Around... (2017)
- A Winter Sky (2022)
Resources
- Grantham, D. (2005). Baron Samadi's Sarabande (and Soft Shoe): Wind Ensemble [score]. Piquant Press: Austin, Tex.