related works
Feest in de gele maisvelden : voor ensemble & tape, 2003 / Simon Burgers
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players); Electronics with different instruments
Scoring:
fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4sax 2h 2trp 2trb trb-b tb 2perc el.g cb 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
Concerto : for baritone saxophone and wind orchestra, 2007, Bernard van Beurden
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and wind band
Scoring:
pic 2fl 2ob 3cl cl-b 2fg 2sax-s 2sax-a sax-t sax-br 4h 4trp 4trb 2tb-t tb-b timp perc cb sax-br-solo
Quadrupelconcert : versie voor 4 saxofoons en harmonieorkest, 1984 / Henk Badings
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and wind band
Scoring:
2141 4sax 4232 2crt 2barh 2euph timp 4perc cb 4sax-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