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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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• Two works by Yvette Audain 

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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 – alto sax quartet version; computer set 

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• Audain: A Charleston Kick With Steel Caps – alto sax quartet version; computer set 

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• Yvette Audain: A Charleston Kick With Steel Caps – alto sax quartet version; video 

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A miniature for Clarinet Quartet based on aspects of Baroque dance music.

• Adams, C.: Arianna's Dance; computer-set 

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• Adams, C.: Arianna's Dance; computer-set 

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• Microscore Madness! - the New Zealand Clarinet Quartet 

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• Lardelli: Arrangements; computer set 

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• Lardelli: Arrangements; computer set 

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• Dylan Lardelli: Arrangements; audio 

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Banda is a genre that sprang to life in the late nineteenth century when Mexican music collided with the polka of German immigrants. Traditional bandas are centred around the sousaphone and the tambora (a bass drum with a hi-hat on top). Beyond these, you’ll find further wind, brass and percussion instruments depending on the regional style: clarinets, saxophones, alto horns, trumpets, trombones, tarolas (snare drums) and more.

A few months before writing this piece I’d seen a YouTube video of Chicago group Banda Sincera performing before a Mexican national team football match*. The atmosphere was party, the tempo was quick, the time was compound, the licks were virtuosic, and the pulse was always getting disrupted at the ends of sections. The band would pause, the tarolero and sousaphone dude would go off on a soloistic tangent, and then the band was back in for more of the same. They even stuck a conga-based cumbia in the middle! These guys were mental and I loved it.

When I started on a piece for Saxcess I established the reasonably serious beginnings of Huff, but I kept getting pulled down this raucous Mexican garden path. I put the serious to one side, started a new score, took a few days to get this “banda chiflada” (crazy band) out of my system, and resumed composing Huff when I was done. They’re two very different pieces, but ultimately cut from the same cloth.

• Banda Sincera playing Arriba Pichátaro here: http://youtu.be/Cm1dcT710d8

• Ellis: Banda Chiflada; computer set 

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• Ellis: Banda Chiflada; computer set 

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An arrangement for recorder ensemble of a well known folk song.

• Parsons: Camptown Races; computer-set 

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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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• Young, K.: Elegy; computer set 

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• Young, K.: Elegy; computer set 

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• Young, K.: Elegy; 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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