LEE MITCHELL
arr. Josh Trentadue
THE REAPER CAME CALLING
SAX QUARTET
INSTRUMENTATION:
Soprano Sax
Alto Sax
Tenor Sax
Baritone Sax
MA
ABOUT:
The fifth of Lee Mitchell's Six Poems for Saxophone Quartet, The Reaper came calling contemplates on feelings of deep thought, anger, and acceptance, pondering the meaning of when something must end.
Rejection & death, both have been grim faces at my window… the anvil of lead across clavicle.
The Reaper came calling, the jester caped in melted clay, the froth blower drunk amid the moldering hay, the dead beetle upon the pheasant carcass strewn about the way. At the juncture of Mars it rested, poised… in that atom of time under a claw of ice… plucked bone from pocket and cast the dice… that flashed in moon, on crutches rolled to the root of the beggar lice.
Eye pierced shadow mid the fascia eaves… it spied the sleeping, naked form, and swifter than a meteor swarmor owl to mouse...or hawk to harewas seated thence in the wicker chair, like a whipped pup half-forlorn. With fever, drenched, I shook as swine, doomed at the slaughter-house door… and drank the unpredictable wine of dream… the hooked pike floundering in the fluid stream… and woke to spy the empty chair, the bruise of life, the black crow's blare, the crawl of time, the sting of love lost. Rejection & death, both have been grim faces at my window… the anvil of lead across clavicle.
DURATION: 4'00"
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First printing, May 2023
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Legato = 110 Soprano Sax Alto Sax Tenor Sax Baritone Sax 9 7 14 Poem Five of “Six Poems” THE REAPER CAME CALLING for Saxophone Quartet Copyright © 2022 T.U.X. People’s Music Publishing Company, LLC. International Copyright Secured. Printed and engraved in the U.S.A. All Rights Reserved including Public Performance. Learn more about all of our amazing titles at Tuxpeoplesmusic.com Transposed Score Lee Mitchell arr. Josh Trentadue 2021/arr. 2022 SE0107e-01 PERUSALCOPY legaluserequirespurchase
20 29 26 rit.rit. = 80 35 32 2 THE REAPER CAME CALLING SE0107e-01 PERUSALCOPY legaluserequirespurchase
1. 2. rit.rit. 37 = 50 rit.rit. 41 = 90 46 3 THE REAPER CAME CALLING SE0107e-01 PERUSALCOPY legaluserequirespurchase
53 52 59 65 4 THE REAPER CAME CALLING SE0107e-01 PERUSALCOPY legaluserequirespurchase
rit.rit. = 100 75 70 76 85 81 rit.rit. 86 5 THE REAPER CAME CALLING SE0107e-01 PERUSALCOPY legaluserequirespurchase