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I did intend to sit down and compose an orchestral epic. I really, really DID, honest. Could I help it that as soon as I made that decision, the saxes started up a 1920s tea dance in my computer?! Only it’s not all sweetness and light and good ol’ days, in fact it sometimes gets a little murky in there, to say the least…

• Audain: A Charleston Kick With Steel Caps; computer-set 

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• Audain: A Charleston Kick With Steel Caps; computer-set 

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• Two works by Yvette Audain 

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• Burch: Capriccio for Four Saxophones; facsimile 

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• Burch: Capriccio for four saxophones; facsimile 

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• Chamber Works Vol 1 (NZ Composers Edition) 

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• NZ Flora Series Vol 2  Year: 1972 

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• Saxcess 10th Anniversary  Year: 2002 

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eight pieces for wind quartet was inspired by Ligeti’s extraordinary, dramatic work Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet, and my eight pieces uses this work as a model, where movements alternate between slow-moving, cloud-like textures and jittery, virtuosic interjections. The fragments of melody are constantly reaching outwards, the tense, at times nightmarish, harmonic language constantly straining, edging towards the elusive octave. Within the twelve-tone framework I wanted to create as much diversity and flexibility as possible, always keeping a tension between motion and stasis. Each piece is a kind of elaboration of the same melodic idea, a blueprint that is constructed differently each time, like seemingly unrelated episodes in a dream. Below is a short poem that I think embodies the miniature nature of each piece and the work as a whole.

miniature

if a dream came to you
you might catch it, hold it,
sculpt from it an elaborate

memory, the husk of a rushed
feeling, the miniature
interior of a moment

- alex taylor

• Taylor: eight pieces for wind quartet; computer-set 

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• Taylor: eight pieces for wind quartet; computer-set 

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• New Zealand Music for Woodwind 

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• Saxcess 10th Anniversary  Year: 2002 

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• Norris: Honk!; computer-set 

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• Norris: Honk!; computer-set 

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• Norris: Honk!; computer-set  Year: 2003 

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• Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 7 - Emerging Composers  Year: 2003 

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• Biddington: Two Pieces for Saxophone Quartet; computer-set  Year: 2007 

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• Eric Biddington: Mad Music 

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• Eric Biddington - Two Pieces for Saxophone Quartet 

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• Wilson: Variations on a Theme of Paganini; computer-set 

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• Ken Wilson: Variations on a Theme of Paganini; video 

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• Wilson: interclarinet 

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