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Kije’s Weddingfrom Lt. Kije’s Suite

Sergei Prokoviev

Lieutenant Kizhe / Lieutenant Kije / Поручик Киже

• 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

Fanfare

Kije’s Wedding

Oompah Trumpet

Saxophone

Fanfare

FanfareOompah

Trumpet

Trumpet

Crazy upperwoodwinds

The original film is on Google Video:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5960899000870748608