Secret Ceremonials (2013, rev. 2025)
Alto Saxophone (or Clarinet in Bb) & String Quartet
Duration:
6′
First Performance:
03 May 2025
Outwith Ensemble, Lewis Banks (saxophone), King’s Pavilion, Aberdeen, UK
Score
Programme note
Secret Ceremonials is essentially a set of theme and variations, but rather than varying a given melody, here different textures, fragments and motifs are taken apart and put back together in a variety of different ways. The work is also an exploration of a very rigid harmonic design with each ‘variation’ starting from the same harmonic point and traversing the same distance, but in a different fashion.
PAC