Mountain Roads for Saxophone Quartet in the Transposed Key of Db by David Maslanka Saxophone Quartet - Sheet Music

By David Maslanka

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Instrument:

Saxophone

Genres:

20th Century

Composers:

David Maslanka

Artist:

David Maslanka

Format:

Set of Parts Score and Parts

Item types:

Physical

Usages:

School and Community

Detailed Description

Chamber Music Saxophone Quartet

SKU: CF.WE43

For Saxophone Quartet in the Transposed Key of Db. Composed by David Maslanka. Folio. Score and parts. Carl Fischer Music #WE43. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.WE43).

ISBN 9781491167151. UPC: 680160926237. 9x12 inches. Key: Db.

David Maslanka’s Mountain Roads is set in six movements and follows the model of a Baroque cantata. The piece revolves around two chorale melodies by J.S. Bach, "Alle Menschen müssen sterben" (“All people must die”) and "Wo soll ich fliehen?" (“Where shall I run to?”), which appear in full and as variations as the piece progresses. The title of the work was inspired by a dream the composer had in which he helped to pave new roads; upon waking, he felt as though the dream acted as a metaphor for new life. In setting a chorale that explicitly discusses death to music that Maslanka describes as “exuberant and uplifting,” he acknowledges the paradox of death’s inevitability and the way in which the knowledge makes all things both deeply sweet and deeply sad, while also suggesting movement towards, in his words, “whatever exists beyond.”Although Mountain Roads was oriented, harmonically and melodically, around the note "D" in its original scoring, the commissioning quartet sought the composer’s permission (which he granted) to produce a version transposed a semitone lower, in which “Db” becomes the note of polarization, thereby allowing the instruments to play in tune more easily and, perhaps, to facilitate some of the piece’s technical demands. This version of the work represents the transposition; the original is also available (WE42).

Song List

1. Overture
2. Chorale
3. Aria
4. Chorale
5. Aria
6. Finale

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Chamber Music Saxophone Quartet

SKU: CF.WE43

For Saxophone Quartet in the Transposed Key of Db. Composed by David Maslanka. Folio. Score and parts. Carl Fischer Music #WE43. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.WE43).

ISBN 9781491167151. UPC: 680160926237. 9x12 inches. Key: Db.