related works
A thin place : 3 prayers from the Carmina Gadelica, for mixed choir, 2002 / Lowell Dijkstra
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK4
Wind quintet : 1988 / Henri Delnooz
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind quintet
Scoring:
fl ob cl fg h
Quintet 1948 : fluit, hobo, clarinet, fagot, hoorn / Henri C. van Praag
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind quintet
Scoring:
fl ob cl h fg
Divertimento : op. 16 nr. 1, fluit, hobo, klarinet, fagot, hoorn, 1937 / Jan Koetsier
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind quintet
Scoring:
fl ob cl h fg
composition
Light and the half light : for wind quintet / Lowell Dykstra
Other authors:
Dykstra, Lowell
(Composer)
Description:
Inside a large church or cathedral the different shadings of light coming in from windows is exuberant, but the shifting of incoming light when a cloud hides the sun will also change the atmosphere. There are certain spaces where there is virtually no light. This was an interesting musical idea and so I decided for all parts as well as within each part, to juxtapose the characters of different church modes: the Doric, Lydian, Mixolydian and Ionic. The hexatonic and octatonic scales have been sparingly used to create dissonant passages. Hence the overall title: ‘Light and the half light.”
Lowell Dykstra