Erik Satie
Quatre petits morceaux montés à poire et tournés en tous sens
for wind orchestra
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Erik Satie
Quatre petits morceaux montés à poire et tournés en tous sens
for wind orchestra
- Instrumentation Concert Band
- Composer Erik Satie
- Editor Sandro Montalto
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- Publisher MULPH EDIZIONI srl
- Order no. MULPH015-DL
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Description:
Quatre petits morceaux montés à poire et tournés en tous sens is the orchestration of some of Erik Satie's music. The choice of original pieces is not limited to the best-known ones but spans the author's entire production (from 1889 to 1921) and is intended to give a sampling of all his main periods: the mystical and Rosicrucian, the music written for cabaret, the so-called "comic" music, the music-hall period; but also the dimension of certain beautiful and really curious piano music, such as Sur un pont, very private and at the time (as today!) almost unknown. The pieces were placed side by side to make up the various movements of the suite and orchestrated almost without radical intervention, with the sole exception of the first movement in whose finale the echo of the Sonnerie heard at the beginning returns.
The title, which can be translated "Four small pieces mounted in the shape of a pear and turned in all senses" (not forgetting that in French "poire" can also mean "minchione"), is of course a play on montage from fragments of Satie's titles: Trois morceaux en forme de poire, Trois petites pièces montées, Chapitres tournés en tous sens. Also, in this suite called Quatre petits morceaux the movements are actually five, just as Satie's Trois morceaux...are actually seven.
The use of the vibraphone is optional, but strongly recommended.
The tamtam should be as large as possible.
In the third movement the "sizzle cymbal" is called for: in the absence of the cymbal suspended with the appropriate mechanism, a small metal chain is placed on the usual cymbal and then the roll is performed with ordinary mallets. Alternatively, it is possible to rub, but continuously, the surface of the cymbal with a metal rod or tuning fork, leaving it free to vibrate.
The title, which can be translated "Four small pieces mounted in the shape of a pear and turned in all senses" (not forgetting that in French "poire" can also mean "minchione"), is of course a play on montage from fragments of Satie's titles: Trois morceaux en forme de poire, Trois petites pièces montées, Chapitres tournés en tous sens. Also, in this suite called Quatre petits morceaux the movements are actually five, just as Satie's Trois morceaux...are actually seven.
The use of the vibraphone is optional, but strongly recommended.
The tamtam should be as large as possible.
In the third movement the "sizzle cymbal" is called for: in the absence of the cymbal suspended with the appropriate mechanism, a small metal chain is placed on the usual cymbal and then the roll is performed with ordinary mallets. Alternatively, it is possible to rub, but continuously, the surface of the cymbal with a metal rod or tuning fork, leaving it free to vibrate.