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Treppab!! (2015)

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Duration: 9 minutes
Instrumentation: Saxophone Quartet (Sop, Alto, Ten, Bari)
Commissioner: 
Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI) and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)

Performance History
11/13/2015, Red Clay Saxophone Quartet at the 2015 SCI National Conference, Gainesville, FL
6/2/2018, Sean Fredenburg et al, Portland, OR

Program Notes

Inspired by a famous print Treppauf Treppab (Ascending and Descending in English, see the picture above) by M.C. Escher with the endless staircase on the rooftop of a castle, I decided to compose a piece exclusively with 'descending gestures.'  The horizontal and vertical intervals vary to form a wide variety of sections from a simple descending idea or motive.  With them, I wanted to depict a person's endeavor to escape from a system - would it happen eventually?

last updated May 2023

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