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Two jazz colors and variations-Saxos
Cuarteto de saxofones
ORTEGA, MiguelReg.: B.3489
20,70 €
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- Ensemble: Quartets: .
- Genres: Classical / contemporary: Chamber.
Modern music: Jazz.
- Language of the comment: Català/English/Castellano
- Product format: Partitura + particellas
- Difficulty level: Intermediate
- Period: 2nd half S. XX - XXI
- Publishing house: Editorial Boileau
- Collection: Siglo XXI
- No. of pages: 36+48
- Measure: 31,00 x 23,00 cm
- Lenght: 12' 20"
- ISMN: 979-0-3503-0529-0
- Available in digital: No
- Available for rent: No
Miquel Ortega's Saxophone Quartet, later called Two Jazz colour and variations, is a work commissioned by the "Associació catalana de compositors" to be performed at the Nick Havana in Barcelona by the "Quartet Sax" in a programme organised by the "Associació" in 1989 and which contained only premieres.
On receiving the commission, Ortega, always a lover of jazz, immediately imagined the material to be used with instruments so closely related to this musical style. He structures the work in three relatively short movements, the first of them in a very clear sonata form, whose first theme, tonally ambiguous, belongs to the world of "non-commercial" jazz, while the second theme, a gentler, classical heritage, could belong to the white jazz of Miller, Garner, etc. The second movement is a kind of slightly "Gershwinian" impromptu, and the third a theme with variations, in which jazz appears in variations no. 2 and no. 7, in a way that could be considered naïve, and which in the composer's mind appeared as a tribute to the musical films of the 40s and 50s. For the rest, in the variations on the theme and in the theme itself, we can find echoes ranging from Bach (Theme, variations no. 1, no. 3 and no. 5) to Ravel (variation no. 4).
