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Prestidigitation
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General Info
Year: 2016
Duration: c. 5:55
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $115.00 | Score Only (print) - $15.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone Solo
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
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion
(percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Prestidigitation means slight of hand or nimble fingers and describes the alto saxophone soloist in this work. This composition was written for the esteemed alto saxophonist Julia Nolan, and uses a seven-note scale loosely based on a blues scale. This, along with the triplet rhythms, the walking bass, and the call-and-response style, gives the piece a slightly jazzy feel.
The work opens "allegro animato" and introduces the various phrases that become the basis of the piece. This leads to a bluesy section accompanied by a saxophone quartet and then develops into a solo cadenza and finally into a big finish.
Buckley's aim with this work was to create a dialogue between the soloist and the ensemble, where each feeds into the other.
Prestidigitation was co-commissioned by the West Vancouver Youth Band, the Pacific Wind Ensemble, and the Sea to Sky Wind Ensemble.
- Program Note from the University of British Columbia Symphonic Wind Ensemble concert program, 20 November 2015
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Arizona (Tucson) Symphonic Band (Michael I. Gaines, conductor; Ashley Krogstad, also saxophone) - 25 April 2019
- University of British Columbia (Vancouver) Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Robert Taylor, conductor; Julia Nolan, alto saxophone) – 20 November 2015
Works for Winds by this Composer
Adaptable Music
- Final Countdown (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1986/2014)
- My Favorite Things (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1959/2014)
- Highlights from "Doctor Who" (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2006/2019)
All Wind Works
- Cathedral Grove
- Codebreaker
- Continuum (2011)
- December
- Doctor Who (as arranger) (2016)
- Eagle Song (as arranger) (2018)
- Echo Lake
- Echoes of the Silent (2018)
- Excerpts from "The Rite of Spring" (as arranger)
- Fantasy on the Huron Carol
- Final Countdown (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1986/2014)
- Free Running (2012)
- Highlights from "Doctor Who" (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2006/2019)
- Hymn to Freedom (as arranger) (1962/2017)
- I Am the Doctor (as arranger)
- Jitterbug! (2018)
- LOL (2016)
- My Favorite Things (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1959/2014)
- Pacifica (Buckley)
- Portraits of the North
- Arctic Fire (2014)
- Land of the Midnight Sun
- Iditarod (2013)
- Postcard from England (2014)
- Postcard from Pittsburgh (2013)
- Prestidigitation (2016)
- Procession of the Sorcerers
- ReBoot
- Red Sky
- Rock It Science
- The Seas of the Moon
- Smoke and Mirrors
- Thunderbird
- Undercurrents (2016)
- Walking to the Sky (2016)
- Windjammer (2011)
