for Alice again
Paulo Bastos
for saxophone alto & tenor,
violin, cello and piano
Seven musical scenes from Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
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Chapter 1
ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the
bank and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book
her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it,
"and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without
pictures or conversations?'
Without
pictures or conversations (Alto, Vl, Vc, Pno)
Chapter 1
Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? "I wonder
how many miles I've fallen by this time?" she said aloud. "I must be
getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four
thousand miles down, I think (...)
Down, down,
down (Alto, Pno)
Chapter 4
It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and looking
anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; and she heard it
muttering to itself 'The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and
whiskers! She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where can I
have dropped them, I wonder?' Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for
the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and she very good-naturedly began
hunting about for them, but they were nowhere to be seen (…)
White
Rabbit (Alto, Vl, Vc)
Chapter 2
'I'm sure those are not the right words,' said poor Alice, and her eyes
filled with tears again as she went on, 'I must be Mabel after all, and I shall
have to go and live in that poky little house, and have next to no toys to play
with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn! No, I've made up my mind about it;
if I'm Mabel, I'll stay down here! It'll be no use their putting their heads
down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say
"Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person,
I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else" — but,
oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put
their heads down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!'
Who am i
then? (Vl, Vc, Pno)
Chapter 1
(…) so Alice soon began talking again. "Dinah'll miss me very much
to-night, I should think!" (Dinah was the cat.) "I hope they'll
remember her saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah, my dear! I wish you were down
here with me! There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but you might catch a
bat, and that's very like a mouse, you know. But do cats eat bats, I
wonder?" And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to
herself, in a dreamy son of way, "Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat
bats?" and sometimes "Do bats eat cats?" for, you see, as she
couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which way she put it.
She felt that she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she was
walking hand in hand with Dinah, and was saying to her, very earnestly,
"Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat?" When
suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and
the fall was over.
Do cats
eat bats? (Tenor, Vc, Pno)
Chapter 12
'It's a pun!' the King added in an offended tone, and everybody laughed,
'Let the jury consider their verdict,' the King said, for about the twentieth
time that day. 'No, no!' said the Queen. 'Sentence first—verdict afterwards.'
'Stuff and nonsense!' said Alice loudly. 'The idea of having the
sentence first!'
'Hold your tongue!' said the Queen, turning purple. 'I won't!' said
Alice.
Off with
her head!' the Queen shouted at the top of her voice.
Off with
her head! (Vl, Vc Pno)
Chapter 12
'Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this
time.) 'You're nothing but a pack of cards!'
At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying down upon
her: she gave a little scream, half of fright and half of anger, and tried to
beat them off, and found herself lying on the bank, with her head in the lap of
her sister, who was gently brushing away some dead leaves that had fluttered
down from the trees upon her face.
'Wake up,
Alice dear!' said her sister; 'Why, what a long sleep you've had!'
You're
nothing but a pack of cards! (Tenor, Vl, Vc, Pno)
