related works

Speech of Avenice : music theatre for soprano, blockflutes, live electronics, (tape) and lights / Adam Lukawski

Genre: Multimedia
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players) with multimedia
Scoring: sopr blokfl tape

Impuls : voor saxofoonkwartet, 1992 / Jan Felderhof

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone
Scoring: 4sax

Four sax : for saxophone quartet / Ted Ponjee

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone
Scoring: 4sax

Rage, rage, against the dying of the light : (in memoriam Gustav Martin Blok), for saxophone quartet, 1984 / Herman van Dam

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone
Scoring: 4sax

composition

Humors : for saxophone quartet / Adam Łukawski

Other authors:
Lukawski, Adam (Composer)
Description:
The title of the piece refers to the ancient proto-medical theory of temperaments in which 4 types of fluids/personalities were reasons for different behaviours in humans. In the work there are 4 characters: sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic and melancholic - each of them playing at their own tempo. They follow each other, by constantly changing the leader, in order to be able to keep the musical work (here: metaphor of the human psyche and body kept in balance) going.
Adam Łukawski