<p> Initially, my motivation for writing saxophone music started with curiosity about the saxophone's timbre rather than influence of jazz music or specific musical styles. I think composers' ideas of sounds are not always easy to realize because of the physical instrument's characteristics. For instance, in case of woodwind instrumental works, performers are occasionally confronted with difficult fingerings, long notes with fastidious articulation, tunings, rapidly leaping motions and so on. From this perspective, clarinet is an easier and satisfactory instrument for realizing composers' idea compared with other instruments and many clarinet works have been attempted successfully. The saxophone, as a single reed instrument, has not only the similar advantages of the clarinet's instrumental mechanism but also timbral characteristics mingled with wood wind and brass instruments. In fact, the saxophone has a complex harmonic spectra whereas clarinet's timbre consists of only odd harmonics. </p><p> In the work, the main compositional ideas are applications of short repetitive motive patterns using variation, diminution and extension. The first etude-like pattern appears in an easier register to articulate the saxophone's sonority. The orchestra performs not only material supporting the saxophone's passages but also contrasting ideas of melodic and rhythmic passages.</p>
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PROQUEST/oai:pqdtoai.proquest.com:3625865 |
Date | 28 August 2014 |
Creators | Yang, Minsuk |
Publisher | University of Cincinnati |
Source Sets | ProQuest.com |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | thesis |
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