Elephant Suite (Score And Parts)

SKU: FL.FX070646

In this musical suite, you will find eight short pieces depicting one day in a Zoo. You will discover emblematic animals such as monkeys, lions or elephants. The orchestration with four parts and percussions will allow you playing those pieces with all kind of musical groups, each part being provided in several transposition tonalities. These pieces are particularly suitable for young musicians from two years of instrument practice.

SKU: FA.MFCD017B

8.27 x 11.69 inches.

Contains Le Roi Lear: Prelude,Premiere Fanfare, and La Mort de Cordelia,Toomai des elephants, Rodrigue et Chimene: Prelude a l'acte 1p. Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien: La Passion , and No-ja-li ou Le Palais du Silence

From Robert Orledge's notes:

My interest in the wonderful music of Claude Debussy began in the 1980s when I researched and published a book with Cambridge University Press entitled Debussy and the Theatre. During the course of my studies in Paris, I was amazed to discover that Debussy planned over 50 theatrical works but only finished two of these entirely by himself (the opera Pelleas et Melisande in 1893-1902 and the ballet Jeux for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1912-13). Of the rest, many were never started musically (like Siddartha and Orphee-roi with the Oriental scholar Victor Segalen, 1907); some had a few tantalising sketches (like the Edgar Allan Poe opera Le Diable dans le beffroi, 1902-03); some were half-finished (like his other Poe opera La Chute de la Maison Usher, 1908-17); while others were musically complete but had their orchestrations completed by other composers (like Khamma, by Charles Koechlin, 1912-13; or Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien and La Boite a joujoux by his 'angel of corrections' ['l'ange des Corrections'] Andre Caplet in 1911 and 1919 respectively).

For it has to be admitted that what some scholars call Debussy's 'compulsive achievement' could equally well be viewed as laziness, especially as far as the minute detail required for calligraphing his orchestral scores was concerned. It was as if creating the music itself was of greater importance than controlling its final sound, even if Debussy was an imaginative orchestrator when he found the time and energy to do it. It also seems true that Debussy also preferred inventing ideas to turning them into complete pieces. However, despite the lack of detail in many of his sketches (missing clefs, key signatures, dynamics, phrasing, etc.) the notes themselves are surprisingly accurate, whether or not they can be compared with a later draft. Thus, a large number of sketches exist for his Chinese ballet No-ja-li ou Le Palais du Silence and it is not too difficult to see which parts of Georges de Feure's 1913 scenario (see below) inspired which ideas. But Debussy hardly made any attempt to join them together after the first few bars.

It was usually up to his publisher, Jacques Durand, to find solutions when Debussy risked a breach of contract. Debussy was supposed to supervise the orchestrations completed by others, but this supervision was usually very light and restricted to quiet, sensitive moments in which problems were easier to spot. Far from jealously guarding every one of his created notes, as Ravel did, Debussy once even went as far as to ask Koechlin to 'write a ballet for him that he would sign' on 26 March 1914 when he was hard-pressed to fulfil his lucrative contract for No-ja-li with Andre Charlot at the Alhambra Theatre in London. In the end, Debussy (through Durand) sent Charlot the symphonic suite Printemps instead, whose orchestration had been completed by Henri Busser in the Spring of 1912.

So, when I was offered early retirement as Professor of Music at Liverpool University in 2004, I seized the opportunity it would give me to spend time trying to reconstruct some of Debussy's lost potential masterpieces from his existing sketches and drafts--then orchestrating them in Debussy's style when this was appropriate. I had begun this mission in 2001 with the most promising project, the missing parts of Scene 2 of La Chute de la Maison Usher and the sheer joy it gave me at every stage persuaded me to tackle other projects, especially when Debussy experts were unable to identify exactly where I took over from Debussy (and vice versa) in Usher.

SKU: CY.CC2622

Children's Corner arranged for Brass Sextet by Keith Terrett is a four-movement suite for 2 Trumpets in B-flat, Horn, 2 Trombones and Tuba. Debussy's original six movement suite was written and first performed in 1908 on the Piano.It was dedicated to Debussy's daughter, Claude-Emma who was only three at the time.

The four movements for brass are:

1. Jimbo's Lullaby (about an elephant)
2. Serenade for the Doll (about an Oriental porcelain doll)
3. The Little Shepherd (a shepherd with his flute)
4. Golliwogg's Cakewalk (they were stuffed black dolls with red pants & wild hair.

This 11 minute suite is suitable for advanced performers and is the only arrangement published of this work for brass.

SKU: FL.FX070648

In this musical suite, you will find eight short pieces depicting one day in a Zoo. You will discover emblematic animals such as monkeys, lions or elephants. The orchestration with four parts and percussions will allow you playing those pieces with all kind of musical groups, each part being provided in several transposition tonalities. These pieces are particularly suitable for young musicians from two years of instrument practice.

SKU: FL.FX070644

In this musical suite, you will find eight short pieces depicting one day in a Zoo. You will discover emblematic animals such as monkeys, lions or elephants. The orchestration with four parts and percussions will allow you playing those pieces with all kind of musical groups, each part being provided in several transposition tonalities. These pieces are particularly suitable for young musicians from two years of instrument practice.

SKU: FL.FX070645

In this musical suite, you will find eight short pieces depicting one day in a Zoo. You will discover emblematic animals such as monkeys, lions or elephants. The orchestration with four parts and percussions will allow you playing those pieces with all kind of musical groups, each part being provided in several transposition tonalities. These pieces are particularly suitable for young musicians from two years of instrument practice.

SKU: CF.YAS244

ISBN 9781491164969. UPC: 680160923878. Key: E minor.

Fossils and Finale combines two of the better-known movements from the humorous Carnival of the Animals. This  fourteen-movement suite by Camille Saint-Saëns featured musical depictions of animals such as The Swan and The Elephant, and was written for a private performance with young students in mind. While the composer didn't feel it was serious enough to be performed during his lifetime, it has since gone on to become a beloved classical-musical favorite. In this arrangement, the quirky Fossils with optional xylophone is written to be more accessible for intermediate students, segueing seamlessly into the circus-like Finale. Both movements feature bright, fun melodies within playable ranges and keys for the developing ensemble and the original piano part integrated into the string parts.

About Carl Fischer Young String Orchestra Series

This series of Grade 2/Grade 2.5 pieces is designed for second and third year ensembles. The pieces in this series are characterized by:
--Occasionally extending to third position
--Keys carefully considered for appropriate difficulty
--Addition of separate 2nd violin and viola parts
--Viola T.C. part included
--Increase in independence of parts over beginning levels