related works
Saxophone quartet : ("a final kiss"), 1997 / Lowell Dijkstra
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone
Scoring:
4sax
Cantus Fixus for CaleFax : for reed quintet / Daan Manneke
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind quintet
Scoring:
ob cl sax-a cl-b fg
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind quintet
Scoring:
fl ob cl h fg
Quintetto : per flauto, oboe, clarinetto, fagotto e corno / Jan van Vlijmen
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