Troika (arr Walters)

From Wind Repertory Project
Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Prokofiev (arr. Harold L Walters)


Subtitle: From 'Lieutenant Kijé Suite'


General Info

Year: 1933 / 1956
Duration: c. 3:10
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Rubank, Inc.
Cost: Score and Parts – Out of print.

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Instrumentation

Full Score
D-flat Piccolo
C Flute (C Piccolo)
Oboe
Bassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion, including:

  • Bass Drum
  • Bells
  • Crash Cymbals
  • Snare Drum
  • Tambourine
  • Triangle


Errata

  • Condensed score. m.63, beat 3, top system: slur beat 3 and 3&
  • Cornet I. meas. 36, beat 3: E should read D-flat


Program Notes

The music for Lieutenant Kijé was originally written in 1933 for a motion picture sound track, and then adapted by the composer into a symphonic suite.

The troika is an ancient Russian vehicle pictured as a sleigh drawn by three horses harnessed abreast one another. It has become somewhat of a tradition for Russian composers to portray musically such a sleigh ride; its gaiety and animation, the sounds of the sleigh bells, the horses' hoofs, and the rush of the wind. Prokofiev's Troika, the fourth movement of Lieutenant Kijé Suite, is undoubtedly the most lucid of the numerous works thus far composed in this colorful idiom.

- Program Note from score


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State Ratings

  • Virginia: IV


Performances

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Resources

  • Prokofieff, S.; Walters, H. (1956).Troika: From "Lieutenant Kije Suite" Op. 60 [score]. Rubank: [s.l.]