related works
Pastorals : for two violins / Lowell Dykstra
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
2vln
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind quintet
Scoring:
fl ob cl h fg
Relief no. IV : woodwind quintet, 1969 / Walter Hekster
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind quintet
Scoring:
fl ob cl h fg
Druiven of Kersen : for oboe, 2 clarinets in B-flat, alto saxophone and bassoon / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind quintet
Scoring:
ob 2cl a-sax 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