Title: Ebb & Flow

Catalog No. : [DP.005]

Description: For saxophone, double bass, piano, & percussion Listen here for preview.

Ebb & Flow was written in the summer of 2014 as part of ISAM (the International Summer Academy of Music) in Ochsenhausen, Germany over 10 days. At the end of the ten days, it was rehearsed and performed as part of the Josef Dorfman International Composition Competition, where it received first prize.nThe competition required the use of the “Dorfman cryptogram”, which is the solfege syllables “do-re-fa-mi-la” translating to “C-D-F-E-A”. I took the inversion of that theme, “C-Bb-G-Ab-Eb,” and rearranged the direction of the final intervals to create the main theme of Ebb & Flow “C-Bb-G-F#-Db.

The saxophone player is required to play alto and tenor saxophone simultaneously in the middle of the piece. Duration: 6 minutes.

Instrumentation:

Tenor Saxophone (+ alto saxophone simultaneously)

Percussion – high tom

– bass drum

– vibraphone (no motor)

– suspended cymbal

– snare drum

– low gong (or tam-tam)

– triangle

Double Bass

Piano

The piece was premiered in Ochsenhausen, Germany in August of 2014.

Score 8.5″ x 11″, comb bound, landscape

4 parts, 8.5″ x 11″, loose pages

Price: $20 (price includes performance license)