Kodama IV (Espirit de L'arbre)
Pour Saxophone Alto
Alto Saxophone - Sheet Music

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Alto Saxophone - Advanced

SKU: PR.524085700

Pour Saxophone Alto. Composed by Susumu Yoshida. Premiered at the Conservatoire d'Aix-en-Provence (France), by Jean-Pierre Caens. Contemporary. Score. With Standard notation. Duration 8 minutes. Gerard Billaudot Editeur #524-08570. Published by Gerard Billaudot Editeur (PR.524085700).

UPC: 680160667963.

Alto saxophone is a particularly faxcinating instrument for it can develop a full, rich sound and at turns hover on the brink of nothing. Thus it seems to me the perfect instrument to express the "shado of sounds" their echo. "Echo" is also the name of a Greek nymph: "Echo is no longer a sound through the air. It is a Nymph crying over Narcissus." (Boileau). Interestingly, the Japanese work "kodama" - which gives the piece its title - also has a dual (and somewhat related) meaning: "echo" and "the spirit of a tree". Here, the performer is asked to make rests as expressive as sound. -Susumu Yoshida.