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Composition for saxophone quartet with woodwind doubling (flute, soprano saxophone, alto flute, and bass clarinet). Recorded by the World Saxophone Quartet on Steppin’ with the World Saxophone Quartet (1979) and Live in Zurich (1984). The Julius Hemphill Papers includes parts for flute, alto flute, and bass clarinet, though not for soprano saxophone, which is the part played by Hemphill in concert.
Found on: Steppin’ with the World Saxophone Quartet, Live in Zurich.
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Composition for saxophone quartet (two alto, tenor, and baritone). The archive includes two different scores in holograph for this work. The first is found in Music Manuscript Notebook 1 (MMN1), and the second, with different harmonies, is in Music Manuscript Notebook 4 (MMN4). The World Saxophone Quartet included the piece on Steppin’ with the World Saxophone Quartet (1979). The archive includes these parts in holograph. This composition was also incorporated into the large-scale work “Long Tongues: A Saxophone Opera,” where it is performed by a saxophone sextet.
Found on: Steppin’ with the World Saxophone Quartet.
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Composition for saxophone quartet (two alto, tenor, and baritone), found in Music Manuscript Notebook 1 (MMN1). The archive also includes parts in holograph. It was recorded by the World Saxophone Quartet on the album Steppin’ (1979).
Found on: Steppin’ with the World Saxophone Quartet.
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Composition for saxophone quartet with woodwind doubling (two flutes, soprano saxophone, and tenor saxophone), found in Music Manuscript Notebook 1 (MMN1). The archive also includes photocopies of the parts in holograph. It was recorded by the World Saxophone Quartet on Steppin’ with the World Saxophone Quartet (1979); on the recording, the tenor saxophone part is played on bass clarinet.
Found on: Steppin’ with the World Saxophone Quartet.
From Marty Ehrlich: This work is intricate and multi sectional, set within a rich, free floating harmonic world. Hemphill writes “A la Grotesque” for a section in which a vamp for soprano saxophone and bass clarinet gradually accelerates over an independent, two-flute part.
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