Context

Performance

Instrumentation

p saxofono alto e trombone

Classification

2 blåsare

Subject heading

Xk

Language

First performance

Date

2003-10-30

Location

Rome, Hungarian Academy (Nuovi Spazi Musicali)

Performers

Jörgen Pettersson, Ivo Nilsson

Background

Comments about the work

has borrowed its title from the art world. A or medal is a small relief image, something between a drawing and a sculpture. My intention was to draw and sculpt in this mini format something that cannot be produced with other instruments.It was composed for alto saxophone and trombone, two instruments with a very distinct sound. They are excellent for using large horizontal lines since they can play expressively and are wide in scope; even in the first bar the saxophone plays a figure that spans two and a half octaves. This exclamatory figure serves as a motto for the entire piece. Using slightly less common playing techniques, it’s also possible to play harmonies by combining rapid movements and trills with song and play in the trombone part. This allows the instruments to play a chorale-like passage, with the high notes of the saxophone trills providing the melodic line. The ensuing rapid section is dominated by short notes where the saxophone’s pizz (or slap-tongue) and staccato are imitated by a muted trombone (or half muted, or another technique). The piece culminates in a section comprising quick, nimble figures with arpeggios in both the instruments, and a recapitulation of all preceding sections in abbreviated form.The whole work is melodically and harmonically based on a triad structure, in which dual hexads (two by two triads) are placed in opposition, functionally speaking, as they have no notes in common. Each is at once attracted to and repelled by the other, the functions resembling the functional structure of classical harmonics. Medaglia was written for and is dedicated to Jörgen Pettersson and Ivo Nilsson.It is approximately eight minutes in duration.Miklós MarosEng. translation: Neil Betteridge

List

The work

Composer

Miklós Maros

Title

Medaglia

Duration

8 minutes

Composition year

2003

Information

Identification number

122848

ISMN

M-706866-97-1

Accession

2003:3

Publication year

2005

Work administrator

SUE (Edition Suecia)
Box 17092
Stockholm
Phone: 08-783 88 00
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.svenskmusik.org

Edition number

802

Format

SCORE

Reference to physical copy

L-1106

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