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SEE ALSO
AVAILABLE SCORES:
Gradus at ChesterNovello.com
Gradus
for Soprano Saxophone at MusicRoom.com
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In Good Company on Point Music
Music in the Shape of a Square on Stradivarius
CATEGORIES:
Solo
Gradus
(1968) 9'
Music by Philip Glass
CAST:
Soprano saxophone
COMMISSION:
Written for Jon Gibson
NOTES:
Gradus is for solo soprano saxophone and is one of the first pieces Glass
composed upon his return to New York from his studies with Nadia Boulanger
in Paris and work with Ravi Shankar. Structurally, Gradus deals with the
juxtaposition of melodic and rhythmic material within repeated cycles of
32 beats, and although it is highly structured on the one hand, it also
sounds highly intuitive and unpredictable (to me anyway) on the other.
When I met Philip, he was among other things, in the process of composing Gradus and also studying with the tabla master, Allah Rakha. This is the first piece by Glass that I performed and marks the beginning of a long and important association for me that continues to the present.
— Jon Gibson
PUBLISHER:
Dunvagen Music Publishers