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Saxophone Quartets

Tanner Tango	Adrian Budgen---------------------------------------4½ mins	SATB	PaP04015	£18.00
	Tanner Tango is a movement from Nursery Numbers, a suite for sax quartet in which a number of children’s nursery rhymes have been arranged for grown-ups. It can be performed standalone, in sequence or in combination with any of the other movements. The tango is based on Sing a Song of Sixpence and should be played at a steady tempo to realise the poise and precision associated with the dance style. The nursery rhyme melody is mainly in the Alto sax and the Tenor sax has a short solo that can be optionally improvised. The other movements in the Nursery Numbers suite are Ring-a-Ring, Starlet, Nut Tree and Ding Dong!

Ring-a-Ring	Adrian Budgen-----------------------------------------4 mins	SATB	PaP04016	£18.00
	Ring-a-Ring is a movement from Nursery Numbers, a suite for sax quartet in which a number of children’s nursery rhymes have been arranged for grown-ups. It can be performed standalone, in sequence or in combination with any of the other movements. The piece is based on Ring-a-Ring o’ Roses and the slow relaxed ‘Basie’ style swing makes rhythmic unision perhaps the main challenge of the piece. The Soprano sax takes the lead for much of the arrangement and has an optional improvised solo section. The other movements in the Nursery Numbers suite are Tanner Tango, Starlet, Nut Tree and Ding Dong!

Starlet	Adrian Budgen-----------------------------------------3 mins	SATB	PaP04017	£18.00
	Starlet is a movement from Nursery Numbers, a suite for sax quartet in which a number of children’s nursery rhymes have been arranged for grown-ups. It can be performed standalone, in sequence or in combination with any of the other movements. The piece takes Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and sets it in swing style. The melodic interest is shared evenly between the players and the Soprano sax takes a written swing solo - there is no improvisation in this movement of the suite. The other movements in the Nursery Numbers suite are Tanner Tango, Ring-a-Ring, Nut Tree and Ding Dong!

Nut Tree	Adrian Budgen---------------------------------------4½ mins	SATB	PaP04018	£18.00
	Nut Tree is a movement from Nursery Numbers, a suite for sax quartet in which a number of children’s nursery rhymes have been arranged for grown-ups. It can be performed standalone, in sequence or in combination with any of the other movements. The piece is based on I Had a Little Nut Tree and is a slow movement within the suite. The Alto sax takes much of the lead with the main melodic material and the Baritone sax has a written solo section. The other movements in the Nursery Numbers suite are Tanner Tango, Ring-a-Ring, Starlet and Ding Dong!

Ding Dong!	Adrian Budgen-----------------------------------------3 mins	SATB	PaP04019	£18.00
	Ding Dong! is a movement from Nursery Numbers, a suite for sax quartet in which a number of children’s nursery rhymes have been arranged for grown-ups. It can be performed standalone, in sequence or in combination with any of the other movements. Ding Dong! is a driving blues based on Ding Dong Bell. The Alto sax takes a solo for two choruses which can be improvised or, alternatively, a written solo is provided as a guide. The other movements in the Nursery Numbers suite are Tanner Tango, Ring-a-Ring, Starlet and Nut Tree.

In A Sentimental Mood	Duke Ellington------------------------------------------5 mins	SATB	PaP04023	£18.00
	A dreamy start hands over the tune to soprano sax lead then baritone sax lead. The first half retains this gentle mood which makes the most of Ellington’s rich harmonies. The second half switches to a faster swing feel with a soli-like passage followed by solos from the tenor sax and soprano sax - both optional ad lib. [Arranged by Adrian Budgen]

Call of the South	Kenneth Toye and Tony Radford-------------------3½ mins	SATB	PaP04008	£18.00
	Originally this piece is from of a musical setting of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows where some of the characters are trying to persuade Water Rat that his riverside existence is not up to much and that travelling to distant places is the only life. The structure of the piece revolves around the contrast between a fiery animated ‘theme of the south’ and a more lyrical cantabile theme. [Arranged by Tony Radford]

Market Day	Adrian Budgen-----------------------------------------3 mins	SATB	PaP04006	£18.00
	The inspiration for this piece is a bustling market scene which could be the title sequence of a movie. Market Day can be thought of as the underscoring for that sequence. The movie is unmade, but the music conjures up the organised chaos of a market day in a rustic idyll with children chasing the pigs and the geese around the feet of the people buying and selling. A rotund stall holder appears in one shot, this cuts to a more tranquil corner of the market where two young people are flirting and elsewhere two old folk pass the time of day. The music ends at the point where the principal characters are about to make their entrance.

Kemp's Jig	Anon.----------------------------------------------------3 mins	SATB	PaP04005	£18.00
	This was tune reputedly written to celebrate William Kemp's success in winning a bet. The wager was that the famous Elizabethan actor could not dance from Norwich to London in less than ten days. In 1580 he did it in nine. [Arranged by Adrian Budgen]

Three Hornpipes, a Reel and a Morris Dance	Traditional----------------------------------------------5 mins	SATB	PaP04021	£18.00
	This is a a fairly straightforward arrangement of a number traditional English fiddle tunes: King of the Fairies, Constant Billy, The Fairy Dance, Morpeth Rant and The Trumpet Hornpipe. The challenge in this piece is to keep the energy going as each tune moves the pace on - much in the style of a cèilidh or barn dance. [Arranged by Adrian Budgen]

Gwenith Gwyn	Traditional Welsh love song-------------------------3¾ mins	SATB	PaP04004	£18.00
	The full title of this Welsh folk song Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn translates into Watching the White Wheat. The words of the original folk song describe the tragic love affair between Wil Hopcyn and Ann Thomas from the village of Llangynwyd in Glamorganshire. This arrangement has been beautifully crafted in keeping with its origins. [Arranged by Tony Radford]

Dido's Lament - With Drooping Wings	Henry Purcell-------------------------------------------4 mins	SATB	PaP04003	£18.00
	In this arrangement from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Dido's Lament has been paired with the final chorus With Drooping Wings. The arranger, Tony Radford, writes: "I first ‘fell in love’ with this music whilst studying for A-Level music, my first copy of the Lament being a hand-written copy made from my teacher’s score! The arrangement of the Lament stays very faithful to Purcell’s original, although the melody (originally for solo mezzo-soprano) is distributed amongst the top three saxophones. The very chromatic ground bass on which the aria is famously based is naturally allocated to the baritone. With Drooping Wings, originally being scored for SATB plus continuo, is a faithful arrangement for saxophone quartet of the original vocal parts."

Andante	W A Mozart-------------------------------------------7½ mins	SATB	PaP04002	£18.00
	This is the slow movement from the String Quartet in D Minor K421. The quartet was one of a set of six which Mozart composed in the mid-1780s and dedicated to his great friend and fellow composer Joseph Haydn and which caused Haydn to inform Mozart's father Leopold that Wolfgang was the greatest composer known to him. Despite being superbly written for strings the writing lends itself well to saxophone quartet with the musical dialogue shared the fairly equally. The movement is basically in Ternary (ABA) Form with a short coda. The central (B) section explores the Tonic minor key and its relative major key. [Arranged by Tony Radford]

Molto Allegro	W A Mozart-------------------------------------------7½ mins	SATB	PaP04001	£18.00
	The last movement of Mozart's String Quartet in G major K387 arranged for four saxes. Completed in 1782 the quartet was dedicated to Joseph Haydn and the excitement of the last movement combines quite a dramatic, almost dark, theme with some sparkling explosions that suit the saxophone well. [Arranged by Adrian Budgen]

If Only	Adrian Budgen-----------------------------------------4 mins	SATB	PaP04007	£18.00
	The dreamy opening theme drifts through some primary harmonic colours. A L'istesso tempo funky middle section contrasts with this where the marking in Sop 1 is 'wild!'. The opening dream returns at the end - a classic ABA structure. This is also available as a sax quintet and sax octet.