related works

Bird, Candle & Ignorance : for alto saxophone and piano / Lowell Dijkstra

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone and keyboard instrument
Scoring: sax-a pf

The Newspaper Boy : for woodwind quintet / Chiel Meijering

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

Swing : Version for reed quintet / Martin Lo-A-Njoe

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wind quintet
Scoring: ob cl sax-a cl-b fg

Improvisations and symphonies : for wind quintet, (opus 11), (1960) / Peter Schat

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