Joelle Wallach
Quartet For Saxophones
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 11'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quartet
Instruments: alto saxophone, any saxophone, any woodwind, baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Publisher: To the Fore Publishers
Publisher website: https://www.totheforepublishers.com/quartets.php
Outside URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/quartet-for-saxophones-2/
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Description: Joelle Wallach’s two movement Quartet for Saxophones is a study in the parallel roles saxophones have played in the jazz and classical traditions. The first movement can be heard as a formal passacaglia or a murky blues. The contrasting second movement is a fugue with a jagged, jazzy subject. The piece was written in 1980 in New York City and revised there as well, seventeen years later, in 1997