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Scored for: saxophone quartet Duration: 5:12 min. Premiere: 7/98 Prism Sax Quartet, Free Library of Philadelphia Published by: Self-published, Angelfire Press. Contact Andrea.
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PROGRAM NOTES
SAX TRAX has been performed by Prism (NY), Helikon (Holland) and Diastema (Paris) quartets among others. The work plays with elements of different musical languages; jazz, funk, blues, baroque, romantic and modern atonal. The piece opens with pointillistic rhythms followed by a quasi blues middle section featuring a soprano sax improvisation. Sostenuto lines give way to soloistic passages over slowly evolving harmonies. A brief transition leads into a recapitulation of the opening material where, after a momentary loss of verve, the quartet re-enters with renewed vigor and drives the piece to its close.
Sax Trax
Scored for: saxophone quartet
Duration: 5:12 min.
Premiere: 7/98 Prism Sax Quartet, Free Library of Philadelphia
Published by: Self-published, Angelfire Press. Contact Andrea.
Contact Andrea Clearfield for score and parts:
PROGRAM NOTES
SAX TRAX has been performed by Prism (NY), Helikon (Holland) and Diastema (Paris) quartets among others. The work plays with elements of different musical languages; jazz, funk, blues, baroque, romantic and modern atonal. The piece opens with pointillistic rhythms followed by a quasi blues middle section featuring a soprano sax improvisation. Sostenuto lines give way to soloistic passages over slowly evolving harmonies. A brief transition leads into a recapitulation of the opening material where, after a momentary loss of verve, the quartet re-enters with renewed vigor and drives the piece to its close.
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