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

Faomar : La Poursuite, for wind quintet, 1999 / Will Eisma

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

Dance Scene : for woodwind quintet / Michael Fine

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

Quintet : for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon / Erik Lotichius

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

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