Transcript Kije’s Wedding Lt. Kije’s Suite from Sergei Prokoviev

Lieutenant Kizhe / Lieutenant Kije / Поручик Киже
Kije’s Wedding
from Lt. Kije’s Suite
Sergei Prokoviev
• Composed music to the film
Lieutenant Kijé in 1933
Troika – a three-horse sleigh
The suite – Five movements
• 1. Kijé's Birth: A soldier, while writing out
the morning orders for the Imperial
majesty Tsar Paul, miscopies two words,
creating a Lieutenant "Kijé". The Tsar
learns of his "existence", and issues
numerous orders concerning him. The
palace administrators have no choice but
to carry them out.
• 2. Romance. The fictional lieutenant falls
in love.
• 3. Kijé's Wedding. Since the Tsar prefers
his heroic soldiers to be married, the
administrators concoct a fake wedding.
• 4. Troika
• 5. Kijé's Burial. The administrators finally rid
themselves of the non-existent lieutenant by
saying he has died.
• The movie premiere was in Paris in 1933.
• Prokofiev put the movie music into a suite.
• One version features a baritone (singer) and
one version features the tenor saxophone.
Kije’s Wedding
• Fanfare – brass and percussion
• Oompah – with Trumpet solo & crazy bass
drum
• Minor – with sax solo
• Ascending line
• Trumpet solo – playful
• Fanfare
• Oompah – Trumpet & woodwinds
• Fanfare
Kije’s Wedding
Fanfare Oompah
Crazy upper
woodwinds
Trumpet
Saxophone
Fanfare
Trumpet
Oompah
Trumpet
Fanfare
The original film is on Google Video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5960899000870748608