related works

Three pieces based on the name of Haydn : Arrangement for flute, oboe, bassoon, violin and harp / Claude Debussy, Vincent d'Indy, Maurice Ravel; arranged by Lowell Dykstra

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: fl ob fg vn hp

Think of : for wind quintet / David Mastikosa

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wind quintet
Scoring: fl ob cl fg h

Allegretto giocoso : for wind quintet, 2003 / Jan Bus

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wind quintet
Scoring: pic ob cl fg h

Unicorn's Games : for wind quintet / Svyatoslav Lunyov

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wind quintet
Scoring: fl/picc ob cl/cl-b h fg

composition

Light and the half light : for wind quintet / Lowell Dykstra

Author(s):
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