{"product_id":"tattvas-for-4-saxophonists-and-orchestra-directiepartituur-groot-formaat","title":"TATTVAS for 4 saxophonists and orchestra — DIRECTIEPARTITUUR GROOT FORMAAT","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"http:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/jtizk\/prjy\/\" style=\"width: 550px; height: 350px;\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/2112700947\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\u0026amp;visual=true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/piet-swerts\" title=\"Piet J.Swerts\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePiet J.Swerts\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/piet-swerts\/tattvas-for-4-saxophonists-and-orchestra\" title=\"TATTVAS for 4 saxophonists and orchestra\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTATTVAS for 4 saxophonists and orchestra\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/jtizk\/prjy\/index.html\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eThis composition for 4 saxophonists and orchestra is a logical development in the further development for my oeuvre specifically for saxophone. I am of the belief that Belgian composers have an artistic duty to create repertoire for this instrument because its creator is also a Belgian. The request came from LUCA School of Arts in view of my retirement in July 2027. To celebrate this, we opted together for this artistic project.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eA concertante for saxophone quartet and orchestra is a line-up that is not very common. Moreover, it gives the opportunity to have several saxophonists making music with orchestra. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eFrom this perspective, I thought formally that it would be interesting to cover the different types of saxophones and not just stick to the conventional saxophone quartet. Hence, in this composition, each movement features a quartet of the same type of instrument, four soprano, four alto and four tenor saxophones. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eI therefore decided to create a five-part work where the outer movements would be the classical saxophone quartet as soloists \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eand the inner parts would be a quartet of four of the same instruments: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eI.\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e         \u003c\/span\u003eSATB\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eII.\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e        \u003c\/span\u003eSSSS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eIII.\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e       \u003c\/span\u003eAAAA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eIV.\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e       \u003c\/span\u003eTTTT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eV.\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e        \u003c\/span\u003eSATB\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eTattva\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e is Sanskrit for datness, principle, reality or truth. According to various Indian philosophical schools, a ‘tattva’ is an element or reality that is an aspect of a deity. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eThe elements are: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eearth (prithvi), water (apas), fire (tejas), air (vayu)and ether \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e(akasha), which every human being is said to consist of. Thus, each volume has been given the following title:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eI.\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e         \u003c\/span\u003eAKASHA for SATB\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eII.\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e        \u003c\/span\u003eVAYU for SSSS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eIII.\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e       \u003c\/span\u003eTEJAS for AAAA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eIV.\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e       \u003c\/span\u003eAPAS for TTTT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eV.\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e        \u003c\/span\u003ePRITHVI for SATB\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eThe result is a large work of 33': in this unique construction, it is even possible for each movement to be performed by a different quartet so that potentially as many as 16 different players could participate.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eThe composition itself has become enormously colorful and virtuosic with a full standard instrumentation in symphony orchestra, with piano, celesta and lots of percussion. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eI linked the choice of subject matter to the nature of the composed quartet. The first movement ‘Akasha’ is an evocation of the universe, imperceptible, infinite and constantly moving. To realize this, I composed a twelve-tone sequence that mainly moves on thirds,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eallowing for stacks that are not harmonically functional. The entire first movement is an expiration of six series where the end note of each series is the starting note of the next transposition. In the middle, the series retrograde back into inversion. This is the so-called harmonic constellation on which the movement attempts to evoke the universe. The notes lie in the strings that constantly glissando shift to the next note. Around that come interactions of saxophones and the rest of the orchestra.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e‘Vayu’, air, was meant to sound fluid and fleeting. It is a virtuoso scherzo in which the virtuosity of the soprano saxophone comes in handy. Because we now have a quartet arrangement of four of the same instruments, parallel movements and cluster canons are ideal for suggesting this.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e‘Tejas’ goes one step further in playing out cluster movements. In the middle movement, a chorale emerges and is adopted by the different groups.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eThe warm sonority of four tenor saxophones seemed appropriate to portray the ‘water’ theme. A continuous 5\/8 meter evokes the flowing rhythm and incessant movement of water. Small interjections imitating each other in orchestra and soloists depict the falling of water drops.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eIn the finale, we come from the depths of the earth to a grand climactic build-up in the form of a passacaglia on thirds stacks. It is an orgy of sound that should serve as the conclusion of an adventurous 33' course.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Goudy Old Style BT',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eORCHESTRATION: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003epiccolo, flute I.II, oboe I.II., clarinet I.II in B flat, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebassclarinet in B flat, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebassoon I.II , \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edouble bassoon, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehorns I.II.III.IV in F, trumpet I.II.III in C, trombone I.II.III ,tuba \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003epercussion: 4 players, Glockenspiel, Tubular Bells, vibraphone, triangle, clash cymbals, woodblocks, claves, snare drum, tomtoms, bass drum, tam-tam \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eharp, celesta, piano \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003etimpani \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003esoprano saxophone \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esolo (also playing alto, tenor) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ealto saxophone \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esolo(also playing soprano, tenor) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003etenor saxophone \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esolo \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(also playing soprano, alto) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebaritone saxophone \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esolo\u003cbr\u003e(also playing soprano, alto, tenor) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e12-14 violins I, 10-12 violins II, 8-10 violas, 6-8 violoncellos, 4-6 double basses \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eduration: ca. 33'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe digital file contains 2 versions of lay-out: the first is a cutaway score, the second a traditional edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"ZodiacEditions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64837893226845,"sku":null,"price":95.4,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0276\/3531\/8853\/files\/Scherm_afbeelding2025-06-13om09.13.20.png?v=1749798823","url":"https:\/\/zodiaceditions.com\/products\/tattvas-for-4-saxophonists-and-orchestra-directiepartituur-groot-formaat","provider":"ZodiacEditions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}