composer
Lowell Dykstra is op 14 september geboren in Exeter, Huron County (Ontario), Canada. Op zevenjarige leeftijd emigreert hij met zijn familie naar Nederland. Hij studeert gitaar bij Guido Topper aan ...
related works
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
bar 2vl vla vc
Fanfare(s) : Entrance music for brass quintet / Ross James Carey
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind Quintet
Scoring:
h 2trp trb tb
Shimmer : for wind quintet / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind Quintet
First wind quintet : op. 13 / W.F. Bon
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind Quintet
Scoring:
fl ob cl h fg
composition
Light and the half light : for wind quintet / Lowell Dykstra
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