Samuel R. Hazo (b. 1966)
Arabesque
Fanfare
170.00 €
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Details
- For
- Fanfare
- Product Type
- Score, Parts
- Author / Composer
- Samuel R. Hazo
- Product number
- 1921402
- Difficulty Level
- 2-3
- Duration
- 6 Minutes
Description
In Arabesque, a work in three movements, we hear the mystical sounds of Middle Eastern music. The first movement opens with a taqasim, a passage written out in notes but played freely – similar to jazz improvisation. In this case, the alto saxophone plays in bi-tonal harmonic minor scales, in which a note even ‘bends’ to capture the micro-tonality (quarter tones) of the music from this part of the world. However, unlike in jazz, taqasim, which is usually found at the beginning of a piece of musi...



