Piccola Suite Italiana
Subtitle: Italian Folk Song Trilogy
General Info
Year: 2005
Duration: c. 8:50
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Mitropa Music, distributed by De Haske
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - €155.00 | Score Only (print) - €27.50
Movements
1. Se Jo Vès di Maridâmi - 2:10
2. Nina – Nana - 3:40
3. La Sâgra Dai Falcìns - 3:00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet (optional)
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass (optional)
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbal
- Glockenspiel
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Triangle
- Woodblock
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
With this new suite for concert band, Franco Cesarini draws on the rich repertoire of folk songs from the Friuli Venezia Giulia region of northern Italy. Between the 16th and 17th centuries this rural region developed the furlana, a brilliant dance in 6/8 time. This catchy dance soon spread throughout Europe and became more cultivated. François Couperin (1668-1733), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) all composers of the 18th century, composed furlana, and in the 20th Century Maurice Ravel used a furlana dance his Tombeau de Couperin. Franco Cesarini follows this great tradition by using the furlana as the basis for this major new concert work.
- Program Note from publisher
Incarico della Banda Musicale "Angelo Cesaretto" di Vivaro (PN), Italia / 1904-2004 "100 anni di musica"
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
- Tennessee: IV
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Philadelphia (Penn.) Wind Symphony (Wesley Broadnax, conductor) – 18 March 2019
- Philadelphia (Penn.) Wind Symphony (Paul Bryan, conductor) – 20 March 2017
- Körösparti Vasutas Koncert Fúvószenekar (Békéscsaba, Hungary) – 28 February 2011
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Aida: Grand Finale (as arranger) (1871/2000)
- Triumphal March (as arranger) (1871/2005)
- Alpina Fanfare (1997)
- Antiche Danza ed Arie per Liuto (as arranger) (1917/1999)
- Arizona (2014)
- Blue Horizons (2002)
- Bulgarian Dances (2011)
- Bulgarian Dances (Part II) (2013)
- Ceresio (2002)
- Colorado (2016)
- Convergents (1991)
- Cossack Folk Dances (2004)
- Ernani (as arranger) (1844/2000)
- Greek Folk Song Suite (2002)
- The Haunter of the Dark (1995)
- Huckleberry Finn Suite (2005)
- Huntingtower (as arranger) (1932/1987)
- Interlude for Band (1987)
- I Vespri Siciliani (as arranger) (1855/2000)
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia (as arranger) (1816/2011)
- Il Trovatore: Coro dei Gitani (as arranger) (1853/2000)
- A Joyful Fanfare (2007)
- Jubilee Fanfare (1997)
- La Forza del Destino (as transcriber) (1862/1995)
- Le Cortège du Roi Renaud (1999/2021)
- Mexican Pictures (1990)
- MGB March (2005)
- Mosaici Bizantini (1993)
- Norma (as arranger) (1831/2002)
- Poema Alpestre (1999)
- Mountain Majesty (1999/2005)
- Piccola Suite Italiana (2005)
- Puss in Boots (2013)
- Renaissance Suite (2008)
- Sinfonietta No. 3 (2021)
- Solemnitas (2002)
- Symphonic Fanfare (2009)
- Symphony No. 1 (2016)
- Symphony No. 2 (2018)
- Symphony No. 3 (2021)
- Tom Sawyer Suite (2002)
- Un Ballo en Maschera (as arranger) (1859/2000)
- Variations on a French Folk Song (2000)
Resources
- Cesarini, F. (2005). Piccola Suite Italiana : Italian Folk Song Trilogy: Concert Band [score]. Mitropa Music: Hagendorn.
- Perusal score (in Attachments)