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David Matthews Spring 2003 Symphonic Literature Vaughan Williams’ Sixth and Ninth Symphonies: A Concert Saxophonist’s Guide A handful of the couple-thousand orchestral works whose scores call for saxophone are commonly programmed: the Ravel orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition, that composer’s Bolero, Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet suite, and perhaps a dozen others. ... 16 feature the Eb alto saxophone so continuously and so soloistically as to obviate a legitimate application of the “symphony” moniker. ... 1, derived from his Organ Symphony, also scores Eb alto saxophone but is more deserving of its name. ... Some of the best symphonic music to implement the saxophone may soon be found on more programs with thanks to revived scholarly interest in the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, who is “increasingly viewed as a figure of major significance with a distinctive contemporary voice addressed squarely to the modern predicament.” (Onderdonk, pg 350) Vaughan Williams’ Symphony no. ... Far from the nationalistic and folk-element-laden music of his reputation, the sixth symphony featured a stark and modern despair giving rise to speculation of a wartime influence. ... ” Vaughan Williams himself, in writing to author Michael Kennedy, admitted “with regard to the last movement of my no. ... Vaughan Williams had featured in his eight symphony some experimentation with chromatic percussion. To this the score for the ninth added the flügelhorn and a trio of saxophones. ... Glancing over the score, we that, as it often is, the tenor saxophone is employed for a couple of solos to the effect of timbral variety or, perhaps subjectively, to evoke certain extra-musical connotations unique to the instrument. What is different in this case is that the tenor saxophone is additionally used throughout much of the score as an additional wind tutti voice, a sort of single-reed bassoon. ... (Pike, pp 172-3) The first tenor saxophone solo appears in movement I at rehearsal 5. ... The accompaniment is sparse, but resonance will likely drown out a truly pianissimo saxophone. ... The brief soli with english horn at rehearsal 14 requires careful attention to intonation and low end control, for the phrase is octave-doubled, placing the tenor saxophone in its lowest register. The saxophone is tacet in movement II. ... The added challenge of the third is the demands on tonguing as Vaughan Williams requires a fast and varied articulation from the winds. |
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