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Hammer and wind for tenor saxophone and piano
RSN:
55762
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Composition Date:
1999
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Revision Date:
N/A
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Duration:
00:19:00
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Cataloguing Information
Call Number
MI 5215 E59ham 1999
Genre
Saxophone and Keyboard
Material Type
Print-music
Acquisition Date
2005-12-12
Library Collection Publisher / Label
Unpublished, printed by CMC / Inédit, imprimé par le CMC
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Additional Information
I (9:00) -- II (4:30) -- III (5:15)
Tenor saxophone and piano. Score in C. Photocopy; master of score and part at CMC Toronto.
Master Location
Toronto
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Physical Description
Found 2 record(s)
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Extent of Item
1 score (36 p.) ; 28 cm.
1 part (12 p.) ; 28 cm
Instrumentation
Found 2 record(s)
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Set No.
Category
Instrument
Number
27660
Woodwinds
Saxophone
1
27660
Keyboard
Piano
1
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
Premiere
March 25, 2000, St. Jacobs School House Theatre, St Jacobs Ontario; Willem Moolenbeek, tenor saxophone; Boyd McDonald, piano
Hammer and Wind was commissioned by Willem Moolenbeek. The work was first performed at the St. Jacob's Schoolhouse Theatre on 25 March 2000, and received its 'official premiere' at the World Saxophone Congress in Montreal in July of that year. It was performed on those occasions, as it has been many times since, by the Willem Moolenbeek/Boyd McDonald duo. The piece began as a single movement response to the commission from Moolenbeek, but I found that more was needed, and over several years the work expanded to three movements. The music has much to do with dualities, as already expressed in the title (and in the nature of the performing ensemble). The main musical germ is the Db/C diad, which is announced in the piano at the outset of the first movement. The entire work is an expression of the uneasy relationship between these two pitches. Rhythms are also slightly unnerving and intense--often the saxophone and piano are rhythmically independent. In the second movement, the two pitches become scales; that movement is largely based on the two major scales, Db and C, expressed simultaneously in piano and saxophone respectively, and then swapped between the instruments at the mid-point of the movement. It is a peaceful movement, but has a bittersweet edge because the instruments retain tonal independence. The final movement is driven much by the hammer/wind duality, as is obvious from the percussive nature of the piano part, and the almost uncontrolled fury of the saxophone. And the pitches, the Db/C, are never totally reconciled. The music simply "runs out." The news of Harry Somers' passing (09 March 1999) was announced while I was struggling with this piece. I was stunned, and not prepared for that death. Somers' music had been the object of my PhD dissertation analysis, and I had learned much from him and his music. The work, dedicated to his memory, ends with the both piano and saxophone robbed of their music--the piano is left with pitchless pulses, the saxophone with a final breath only.
in memoriam Harry Somers
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Vancouver
02VA55762
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1
Toronto
02TO55762
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1
Montréal
02MO55762
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1
Toronto
01TO55762
In Circulation
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1
Vancouver
01VA55762
In Circulation
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1
Calgary
02CA55762
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1
Calgary
01CA55762
In Circulation
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1
Montréal
01MO55762
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1
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