((Chinese Drum)). By Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962). Arranged by Greg Anderson. For ...(+)
((Chinese Drum)). By
Fritz Kreisler
(1875-1962). Arranged by
Greg Anderson. For Piano.
Book; Duet or Duo;
Masterworks; Piano Duet
(1 Piano, 4 Hands).
Anderson and Roe Duos and
Duets. 20th Century;
Masterwork Arrangement;
Recital; Romantic.
Advanced. 16 pages.
Published by Alfred Music
Publishing
Fantasia on the Rondo
from the Piano Sonata in
A major K. 331 by.
Composed by Fazil Say.
Edited by Selin
Sekeranber and Yudum
Centiner. Piano Duet.
Classical. Softcover. 16
pages. Duration 90
seconds. Schott Music
#ED23613. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49047113).
ISBN
9781705189269. UPC:
842819117520. 0.096
inches.
The final
movement of the Sonata in
A major K. 331 by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
the Rondo Alla Turca, is
one of the most famous
pianopieces of all. Once
reserved for all music
connoisseurs, later
played by every piano
student, its opening
melody, alienated like a
sine tone, is now
omnipresent even as a
mobile phone ringtone.
The arrangement by Fazil
Say, created as an
effective encore, builds
on this popularity.
Mounted on the still
recognizable classic
basic level, typical jazz
elements such as
syncopation of the top
tones and embellishment
with chromatic blue
notes, embedded in
sometimes frenzied chains
of sixteenth notes, are
found - after the first
eight bars have been
presented originally. In
accordance with the
improvisational
character, Say himself
likes to perform his Alla
Turca Jazz in other
combinations, for example
with the accompaniment of
jazz singers or with an
orchestra. Perhaps it is
surprising that Fazil
Say, who was born in
Turkey and lives there
when not on tour, does
not trace Mozart's
adaptation of genuinely
Turkish music closer to
its origins, since many
of his compositions such
as Black Earth or the
Violin Sonata are
characterized by a subtle
touch Combination of
classic-romantic
tradition, Turkish folk
music and jazz elements.
In another Mozart
arrangement, the ballet
music Patara, which
premiered in Vienna in
2006, but now composed on
the rococo-esque (and
almost equally popular)
theme from the first
movement of the same A
major sonata, Say still
has the connection denied
to the Alla Turca, albeit
inthe opposite direction.
In distinctive chamber
music instrumentation,
the piano stands for
Western culture, the ney
flute for that of the
Orient, atmospherically
conveyed by sparse
percussion and vocalises
by a soprano.