Saxophone Quartet

Arrangement for saxophone quartet of Wolfe's Quartet for flute, alto saxophone, bassoon and cello
by Ellis Hendriksen of the El Bimaci Saxophone Quartet.

Fast and syncopated, then steady

Andante

Minimal movement

Waltz

Brisk but unhurried

close up of saxophone

This music is shareware: you may download the music, play it and enjoy it. Please respect the following conditions:

If you like it, make a small donation to UNICEF. This is only fair: the price of sheet music should not be zero: composers and arrangers have to eat and pay the rent. In this case, Ellis and Joe are not asking that you pay us, but that you pay an organisation that works to free children from slavery, prostitution and ignorance. You'd have to pay for most other sheet music. Why not make a donation and feel good? You could be saving a child.
If you perform it in a concert, please send me the concert details for my records.

The sheet music downloads in .pdf files. The parts are each about 40k for each movement and the score files about 60-80k each. Even if the .pdf files are not clear on the screen, they print out clearly. If you don't have a suitable reader for pdf files, download Acrobat Reader. For the moment, the sound files are recordings of the original quartet, not the saxophone arrangement

Download title page, in .pdf format (6k)
Download Score for 1st movement, in .pdf format
Download soprano sax part for 1st movement, in .pdf format
Download alto sax part for 1st movement, in .pdf format
Download tenor sax part for 1st movement, in .pdf format
Download baritone sax part for 1st movement, in .pdf format
. . . Download the first movement in .mp3 (4.7 Mbyte)
Download Score for movement 2, in .pdf format
Download soprano sax part for movement 2, in .pdf format
Download alto sax part for movement 2, in .pdf format
Download tenor sax part for movement 2, in .pdf format
Download baritone sax part for movement 2, in .pdf format
. . . Download the second movement in .mp3 (3.7 Mbyte)
Download Score for movement 3, in .pdf format
Download soprano sax part for movement 3, in .pdf format
Download alto sax part for movement 3, in .pdf format
Download tenor sax part for movement 3, in .pdf format
Download baritone sax part for movement 3, in .pdf format
. . . Download the third movement in .mp3 (3 Mbyte)
Download Score for movement 4, in .pdf format
Download soprano sax part for movement 4, in .pdf format
Download alto sax part for movement 4, in .pdf format
Download tenor sax part for movement 4, in .pdf format
Download baritone sax part for movement 4, in .pdf format
. . . Download the fourth movement in .mp3 (3.4 Mbyte)
Download Score for movement 5, in .pdf format
Download soprano sax part for movement 5, in .pdf format
Download alto sax part for movement 5, in .pdf format
Download tenor sax part for movement 5, in .pdf format
Download baritone sax part for movement 5, in .pdf format
. . . Download the fifth movement in .mp3 (1.7 Mbyte)

About the composer. Joe Wolfe started writing music in the seventies and has since written sporadically for jazz and fusion groups, including incidental music for plays and films. He has written several orchestral works, including a jazz-flavoured trumpet concerto, originally for Anthony Henrichs of the Sydney Symphony. Circle of Fourths is an orchestral overture about the circle. "The Stairway Suite" is a set of orchestral variations on the pop song "Stairway to Heaven" in the styles of Schubert, Holst, Glen Miller, Mahler, Bizet and Beethoven; "Sydney Sketches" is a set of tone poems, each of which is based in different Sydney location at a different time of day.; "Conjunction" which is an 'interactive introduction to the orchestra', written for orchestra and primary school choir; and an "overture" to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the UNSW Orchestra. (mp3 files available)

Joe Wolfe / J.Wolfe@unsw.edu.au

Introduction to saxophone acoustics.