related works
A set of six : for two alto saxophones and piano / Lowell Dykstra
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
2sax-a pf
Monologues : wind quintet, 1977 / David Rowland
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind quintet
Scoring:
fl ob cl h fg
Wind Quintet : for flute, oboe, clarinet in B flat, bassoon and horn in F / Nimrod Borenstein
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind quintet
Scoring:
fl cl ob fg h
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind quintet; Electronics with different instruments; Wind quintet with multimedia
Scoring:
fl ob cl fg h tape
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