Pierre-Philippe Bauzin (1933-2005) was a skilled keyboard performer, improviser, and composer. By way of his close personal friendship with renowned saxophonist Jean-Marie Londeix, Bauzin began dedicating, composing, and often times performing music for saxophone with Londeix, beginning in 1959. The results of this friendship produced eleven original works for saxophone with diverse instrumentation, ranging from solo compositions to large ensembles. Due to Bauzin's preference for improvising the piano accompaniments of his music on each performance, however, a majority of his compositions were thought to be incomplete or lost. This study surveys Bauzin's complete opus for saxophone by way of both his published works, and the author's rediscovery of the manuscripts to these previously assumed lost compositions for saxophone. The pieces studied are Sonata no. 1 (1959), Poème (1960), Cinq Pièces Breves en Forme de Musique (1960), Esquisses (1967), Divertimento (1968), and Quatuor no. 1 (1962). In addition, chapter 8 provides information regarding other compositions for saxophone by Bauzin that did not survive in their completed form. The survey of each work contains information pertaining to creation, performances of significance in saxophone history, and compositional techniques present within each work that can be used to identify the components of Bauzin's unique compositional style.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc1505140 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Murphy, Sean (Saxophonist) |
| Contributors | Nestler, Eric M., Claure, Fabiana, Reynolds, Kathleen |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | vii, 94 pages : music, Text |
| Rights | Public, Murphy, Sean (Saxophonist), Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
| Relation | Recital: April 8, 2017, ark:/67531/metadc <not yet digitized>, Recital: April 8, 2018, ark:/67531/metadc <not yet digitized>, Recital: June 18, 2018, ark:/67531/metadc <not yet digitized> |
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