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

Entering and leaving a choral : wind quintet, 1978 / Jos Post

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

Quintetto a fiati : 1982 / Antoon Maessen

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

Kleine watermuziek : divertimento in vier rhapsodische variaties over een bekend Hollandsch kinderliedje, fluit, hobo, klarinet, hoorn, fagot, (1951) / Jaap Geraedts

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