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Cat's Pajamas, The
Subtitle: A Felicitous Feline Ragtime Novelty
General Info
Year: 2018
Duration: c. 2:50
Difficulty: II-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: C.L. Barnhouse
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $74.00 | Score Only (print) - $8.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-I
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
- Wood Block
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
During the Jazz age of the 1920’s, “the cat’s pajamas” referred to anything special, unique or “cool.” Musically speaking, the image of a cat in pajamas might suggest combining low clarinets (reminiscent of Prokofiev’s use of a clarinet to describe the cat in Peter And The Wolf) with a jaunty little tune in ragtime style, adding a few instrumental “meows,” and you have (what else?): The Cat’s Pajamas: A Felicitous Feline Ragtime Novelty! Audiences and performers will love it from head to tail.
- Program Note from publisher
To the 2016-2017 Seventh Grade Band at Patrick Marsh Middle School, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, and their outstanding director, Chris Gleason.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Louisville (Ky.) Winds (Jay Gephart, conductor) - 19 December 2019 (2019 Midwest Clinic)
- Old Towne Band (Rockford, Ill.) (Mark Rose, conductor) – Spring 2019
Works for Winds by This Composer
- All Ye Young Sailors (as arranger) (2005)
- American Riversongs (1991)
- American Sketches (2014)
- As I Walked Through the Meadow (2019)
- At the Old Camp Ground (2017)
- The Band in the Square (2006)
- The Cat's Pajamas (2018)
- Caribbean Rondo (2009)
- Come to the Fair!
- A Cowboy Symphony (2008)
- Early One Morning (as arranger) (2005)
- English Country Settings (1997)
- Fantasy on a Fiddle Tune (2005)
- Great American West Suite, The (2013)
- In the Forest of the King (2000)
- La Bonne Aventure (2010)
- Legends and Heroes (2003)
- Minka's Sleigh Ride (2007)
- Music for the King's Delight (2007)
- Overture on a Minstrel Tune (1979)
- Prairie Songs (1998)
- Prospect (1983)
- Red River Valley, The (as arranger) (2001)
- Song of the Mountain Horn (as arranger) (2013)
- Songs of the Plains (2015)
- Suite of English Country Dances (2022)
- Suite of Old French Songs (2015)
- The Thunder and the Roar (2004)
- Travelin' Music (2018)
- The Voyageurs (2002)
- A Walk in the Morning Sun (2010)
- Winds A' "Whispering" (as arranger) (1920/2009)
- Yorkshire Folk Song Suite (2016)
Resources
- Perusal score
- Pierre La Plante website Accessed 19 December 2019