Breath
for saxophone quartet
PERUSALSCORE
Jungyoon Wie
PERUSALSCORE
Breath
for saxophone quartet
PERUSALSCORE
Jungyoon Wie
Commissioned and premiered by the PRISM Saxophone Quartet as part of the inaugural PRISM Quartet/Donald Sinta Commissioning Award
Performances Notes:
All the pitches are based on the harmonic series of concert pitch Db rather than equal temperament.
Noise naturally created in order to move among different partials should not be removed. Playing higher partials may result in the removal of the fundamental sounding at the same time. The fundamental should come back as the partials played gradually lower in register.
Repeated notes are to be played with at least two different fingerings, whenever possible.
Aeolian effect refers to moving freely amongst different high partials at a soft dynamic level, similar to whistle tones on flute.
Instrumentation
Soprano saxophone
Alto saxophone
Tenor saxophone
Baritone saxophone
Duration: 9 minutes
First printing, 2024
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Soprano Sax
Alto Sax
q = ca. 60 Gestural and meditative with no sound of attack or sense of beats
Tenor Sax
solo overblow
Baritone Sax
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vary the weighting of overtones
slide through partials All shapes, pitches, and rhythms are approximate.
Jungyoon Wie (2020)
improvise using the material in the box
alternate fingerings for repeated notes
While keeping the fundamental, vary the weighting of overtones until m. 55
abrupt alternate fingerings
alternate fingerings for repeated notes when possible
alternate fingerings
Wie: Breath Score and Parts JAT-134-028-SP