Quartet for Saxes
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Composer: Evan Williams
Duration: 16:00
Scoring: soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones
Materials: digital score (8.5 x 11) and digital parts (8.5 x 11)
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Duration: 16:00
Scoring: soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones
Materials: digital score (8.5 x 11) and digital parts (8.5 x 11)
*This item is a PDF-download. Digital downloads are non-refundable. The purchase of this item entitles you to download, save, and print one copy of this file for private use. The purchase of this PDF file does not include the conveyance of copyright. You do not have the right to distribute this material to any third party, by any means. The copyright holder maintains all rights over their intellectual property. By submitting your order you demonstrate your acknowledgment of, and agreement to, these conditions.
Program Note
The Quartet displays a wide range of influences, from the "sound clouds" of Ligeti, the "grooves" of Minimalism and Post-minimalism, to the emotionalism of Neo-Romanticism. The work is in an arch form, with the first movement related to the last, the second to the sixth, and so on. Yet, instead of each pair of movements sharing or providing variations on melodic material, they are images "through a mirror darkly" of the other. For example, the explosive opening followed by quiet subtone runs in the first movement are reflected in the seventh as loud clarion calls following a similar opening.
The second movement presents a calming theme with variations, while the sixth movement presents the [035] trichord from movement II (and throughout the work) in an obscured manner inspired by Steve Reich's Pendulum Music. Movement IV serves as the “keystone” movement, having no pair, it is unique from the rest of the piece: a loud and quick sixteen measures, presenting dissonant runs. Sandwiched between the emotionalism of movements III and V, IV is a confusing blur serving as the mirror of the arch form.
— Evan Williams
The second movement presents a calming theme with variations, while the sixth movement presents the [035] trichord from movement II (and throughout the work) in an obscured manner inspired by Steve Reich's Pendulum Music. Movement IV serves as the “keystone” movement, having no pair, it is unique from the rest of the piece: a loud and quick sixteen measures, presenting dissonant runs. Sandwiched between the emotionalism of movements III and V, IV is a confusing blur serving as the mirror of the arch form.
— Evan Williams
Reproduction Notice:
This program note may be freely reproduced in concert programs, provided that proper credit is given to the composer.
This program note may be freely reproduced in concert programs, provided that proper credit is given to the composer.