Composer:
Christopher Fox
Instrumentation:
Solo Saxophone
Details:
Generic Composition #7 can be performed separately or as part of the instillation Everything You Need To Know.
The work consists of unstable tones selected by the performer not the composer. Therefore each performance is unique to that performer transferring control away from the composer! - Matt London
Duration:
05:00
Difficulty:
Difficult: approx diploma/professional
Publisher:
foxedition.wordpress.com
Date:
2001
Score sample:
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Programme notes:
Each of my nine Generic Compositions isolates an aspect of instrumental behaviour for compositional attention: Generic Composition #7 it’s the variable alternation of unconventional finger positions in a keyed wind instrument; in this case tenor saxophone. What interests me in these Generic Compositions is the extent to which instruments seem to write their own music when composers and their players let them.
Performance notes:
Premiered by Matt London
SaxOpen
Cité de la musique et de la danse
Monday 13th July 2015
Astute Music