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Golliwogg's Cakewalk is a Piece from Children's Corner, a suite for solo piano by Claude Debussy, completed in 1908.

It is dedicated to Debussy's daughter Claude-Emma -known as "Chou-Chou"- who was three years old at that time. The pieces are not intended to be played by children. Rather they are meant to be evocative of childhood.

Emma-Claude was born on October 30, 1905 in Paris, and is described as a lively and friendly child who was adored by her father. She died of diptheria on July 14, 1919, scarcely a year after her father.

There are six pieces in the suite, each with an English-language title. This choice of language reflects Debussy's anglophilia, and may also be a nod towards Chou-Chou's English governess. The pieces are:

- Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
- Jimbo's Lullaby (This may well be a mis-translation from the English: Jumbo's Lullaby)
- Serenade for the Doll
- The Snow is Dancing
- The Little Shepherd (Le Petit Berger)
- Golliwogg's Cakewalk

 

Golliwogg's Cakewalk is the last and the most familiar piece of this suite. The middle section of this cakewalk is jokingly interrupted on several occasions by quotations of the opening of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde, marked "avec une grande émotion" (with great feeling). Each quotation is followed by a sort of musical chuckle in staccato chords.

 

[Source of this extract: Wikipedia]

 

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  Title

 

 

Golliwogg's Cakewalk

 

 

  Composer

 

 

Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918)


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  Transcription

 

 

Thierry THIBAULT

 

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  Instrumentation

 

 

Brass Quartet

- 1 Eb Trumpet

- 1 F Horn

- 1 Trombone

- 1 Tuba

- 1 Bb Trumpet (cue Eb Trumpet)

 

 

  Level

 

 

5 over 6

From 8 years of instrument practice

 

 

  Duration

 

 

2 mn 23 s

 

 

  Number of pages

 

 

- Score + All parts: 16 pages

- Score only: 6 pages

- All parts only: 10 pages

 

 

  Tempo

 

 

Allegro: 120

 

 

  Number of measures

 

 

128

 

 

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Download or Shipment within 72h

 

 

  Format

 

 

PDF - Digital Sheet Music


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  Size of PDF files

 

 

- Score + All parts: 593 kB

Score only: 196 kB

All parts only: 388 kB

 

 

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 FX070597

 

 

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