related works
Bach 2000 : voor ensemble en tape, 2000 / Simon Burgers
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Wind ensemble (13 or more players); Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
2222 2221 2pf tape
Concerto NÂș 1 : for alto saxophone and concert band / Rene Ruijters
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and wind band
Scoring:
sax-a-solo picc 2fl 2ob eh fg 4cl cl-b sax-a sax-ten sax-bar 4h 3trp 3trb bar tb bass timp perc
Display : opus 58, for saxophone quartet & symphonic band, 1986 / Jo van den Booren
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and wind band
Scoring:
3262 3sax 4332 2barh timp 3perc cb 4sax-solo
Saxofoonconcert : voor harmonie-orkest, 1951 / Henk Badings
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and wind band
Scoring:
3383 4sax 4342 2bug 2crt 4barh timp 2perc sax-a-solo
composition
Concert voor altsaxofoon en harmonieorkest : 1986 / Simon Burgers
Other authors:
Burgers, Simon
(Composer)
Contains:
Allegro
Cadenza (Adagio)
Moderato
Description:
Program note (English): This is my first composition for big band orchestra. In 1987 the reduction for two pianos was premiered at De IJsbreker in Amsterdam. Especially for this piece I invented a new kind of tone scale: the so-called giant-tone-scale. Its range of not one but seven octaves makes this scale unique. A melody cannot be transposed literally, because in the new area also other tones exists. Only literal transpositions over (a manyfold of) seven octaves are possible. This has of course consequences for the forming of melodies but also, for example, for the harmonic idiom of the piece. Thus not all chords can be layered arbitrarily. Also the instrumentation is influenced by the giant-tone-scale: it is not possible to double a flute by a piccolo which plays an octave higher. The notes which are not in the giant-tone-scale are 'forbidden notes'. They don't appear in the piece at all, except for the cadence (the middle part) of the solo saxophone. This cadence only consists of forbidden notes!
- SIMON BURGERS