related works

Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, 1996-2006, Volume 1

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Clash of cultures : for double saxophone quartet, 2000 / Peter van Onna

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone
Scoring: 2sax-s 2sax-a 2sax-t 2sax-b

Kwartet : for saxophone quartet, 1987 / Geert van Keulen

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone
Scoring: 4sax

Sphynx : for saxophone quartet / Ton de Kruyf

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone
Scoring: 4sax

composition

Ripple volts : for saxophone quartet, 2000 / Christina Viola Oorebeek

Other authors:
Oorebeek, Christina Viola (Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): A short melody of four notes mirrored in the soprano and tenor saxophone is the starting point of Ripple Volts. As the piece progresses, the musical lines shoot upwards and downwards and become longer and more unpredictable. Sometimes they burst away from each other and a moment of rest is created. At the climax of tension in the piece, the call of a bird from the Sumatran jungle is heard in a chromatic line of four notes. In the last section of Ripple Volts, the now curvy, rippling melodic lines are played by all four instruments and then the piece is ended in a descent towards the low and dark registers of the saxophone quartet, ultimately, nothing is heard but the breath of the players. - CHRISTINA VIOLA OOREBEEK