C. DEBUSSY - Th. THIBAULT - Golliwogg's Cakewalk - Sheet music for Brass Quartet

Golliwogg's Cakewalk - C. DEBUSSY - Brass Quartet

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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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Collection

EPSILON

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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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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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