33rd Annual Student Research Conference
Double-Saxophone: How to Write and Perform Works for One Musician Handling Two Instruments
Kyle D. Rieger♦
Dr. Xin Gao, Faculty Mentor
In the saxophone’s expanding classical repertoire, there are very few compositions that employ the extended technique of “double-saxophone”, in which a performer plays two horns at once. To explore this technique and its capacity for usage, excerpts from the currently unpremiered “Aulos & Lyre” will be performed, accompanied by an analysis of the work’s double-saxophone usage by the composer. Limitations of the technique, reasons for its usage, and its employment in other repertoire will also be explained to help performers and composers gain insight into how they might begin to interact with double-saxophone in their professions.
Keywords: Saxophone, Composition, Extended Technique, New Music, Virtuoso, Dual Weilding
Topic(s):Music
Presentation Type: Performance Art
Session: TBA
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