related works

Three Affects : for traverso, baroque violin, baroque viola, baroque cello and harpsichord / Brendan Faegre

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: traverso vln vla vc cemb

Wie ein Hauch : for alto saxophone and piano / Ab Sandbrink

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone and keyboard instrument
Scoring: sax-a pf

Asalto : for saxophone (soprano & alto) and piano, 1986 / Enrique Raxach

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone and keyboard instrument
Scoring: sax-s(sax-a) pf

Rituelen II : for baritone saxophone and piano, 1987 / Henk Alkema

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone and keyboard instrument
Scoring: sax-b pf

composition

Effusion : for soprano saxophone and piano / Brendan Faegre

Author(s):
Faegre, Brendan (Composer)
Description:
Effusion began as an attempt to acoustically produce the indistinguishable mixture (fusion) of flute and piano timbres: flutter-tongue flute blends with a sizzle chain on the piano strings; muted piano echoes slap-tongue flute; air blown through the flute blurs into brushing of the low-register piano strings. Within this restricted set of possible sounds for the instruments, I then allowed myself to pour forth musical expression (effusion) and to develop the ideas which emerged. The musical parameters less affected by timbre—rhythm, phrasing, form—became the primary vehicles for expression.