related works
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (Moments of an Odyssey) : for reed quintet / Lowell Dykstra
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Woodwind ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
ob cl sax-a fg cl-b
Four essays : for wind quintet, 1980 / Koos Terpstra
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind quintet
Scoring:
fl ob cl h fg
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind quintet
Scoring:
fl ob cl h fg
Kwintet no. 1 : voor blaasinstrumenten / Henri C. van Praag
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