Divertimento for Woodwind Quintet
Matthew Baier
About this work:
Divertimento For Woodwinds
This quintet was initially begun with no programmatic idea in mind. Yet, after working with it for sometime, I began to find myself looking to the moon for inspiration during breaks from writing. For this reason, the movements' titles became associated with a range of thoughts and feelings about the moon in its various phases.
The work makes use of the “modes of limited transposition” created by Oliver Messian, (1908-1992). These are synthetic modes, which have scale intervals that are symmetrically arranged from the tones of the chromatic scale. This system of seven modes, (modes one and two are identical to the whole tone and octatonic scales) has from two to six transpositions of each available before their pitch content would become enharmonically duplicated. The motivic content in this work was developed with the use of my telephone number used serially in correspondence to the modes scale steps. (Please, no prank phone calls from code-breakers).
Version: 2002
Year composed: 2002
Duration: 00:19:43
Ensemble type: Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice:Woodwind Quintet
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