CAVEAT For Saxophone Quartet And Drum Set

The Shadow Of Your Smile

This haunting arrangement of Gustav Holst’s classic Christmas carol sets the melody to lush extensions of his original harmonies. Appropriate for both concert and church settings, players will enjoy the individually interesting parts as well as the challenges of seamless transition and intonation.

In the Bleak Midwinter (Sax Quartet + Piano) - Holst/arr. Stempien & Turner

Whirlwind

Das edle Herz mit einem Text von Ernst Marinelli wurde für vier Gesangstimmen von Anton Bruckner vertont. Das Original ist in klingend A Dur gesetzt, mein Arrangement für zwei Alt und zwei Tenor Saxophone habe in in klingend Ab Dur verfasst.
Das edle Herz (The noble heart) with a text by Ernst Marinelli was set to music for four voices by Anton Bruckner. The original is in tonal A major, my arrangement for two alto and two tenor saxophones is in tonal Ab major.

Das edle Herz

Tico Tico No Fuba (Sparrow in the Cornmeal) is a crowd-pleasing arrangement for saxophone quartet, but also fun for the performers. This is a high-energy Grade 5 soca (soul-calypso) guaranteed to add variety to your program. Duration: 2:30.

Instrumentation: Soprano Sax, Alto Sax, Tenor Sax, Baritone Sax.

Sheet music available at:
https://www.lostkeymusic.com/saxophone-quartet

Tico Tico No Fuba - Saxophone Quartet

"Immersion" features the unique combination of saxophone quartet with pitched percussion quartet. The saxes primarily act as a single unit throughout by performing homorhythmic chords against a polyrhythmic backdrop of metallic keyboard percussion and timpani.

Immersion (sax quartet + percussion quartet) - Dave Hollinden

Meine Arrangement für zwei Alt Saxophone und zwei Tenor Saxophone in klingend D Dur.
My arrangement for two alto saxophones and two tenor saxophones in the key of D major

Befiehl Du Deine Wege BWV 270

"Scramble" is roughly in sonata form in the way that themes recur in the overall structure. It is rhythmically driving in character, and makes use of many meter changes, cross-rhythms, and syncopation.

Scramble (Saxophone Quartet) [excerpt] - Dave Hollinden

My First Saxophone Quartet, go see sheet at https://musescore.com/user/70001260/scores/17423182

The Raging Sun (Saxophone Quartet)

©R.LIMA 2024  "T A M B O R"  (2024) 
World premiere 
SIGMA Project Quartet Tour Brasil 2024

world premiere: Centro Cultural Justiça Federal
August 13, 2024 Rio de Janeiro 



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Gostaríamos de agradecer nossos parceiros:
IBERMÚSICAS, Embaixada da Espanha no Brasil,  CCJFRJ, ao Vitor Kruter e Coletivo Pitoresco pela gravação. 

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"T A M B O R" (2024) for saxophone quartet SIGMA Project

A sampler of some of our favorite charts:

Blue Skies
Ain't Misbehavin'
Pure Imagination
Charmant Papillon
When I'm 64
All The Things You Are

A Few of Our Faves (Sampler)

I was challenged by my brother Dave to write a piece for his saxophone quartet

Passacaglia for Saxophones in Cm

Something fun and fast! View the score here: https://www.flipsnack.com/AE7BDC97C6F/birds-and-the-bees-sax-quartet/full-view.html

The Birds And The Bees (Sax Quartet)

This is a piece about our tendency to feel immortal – or our inability to really realize that we are mortal. It is also about what happens to us when death suddenly comes uncomfortably close.
The title, “Kostymen sys i det tysta” is in Swedish, the final words of Tomas Tranströmer’s poem “Svarta vykort” which deals with this subject, and an English translation would be “The Suit is Sewn in Silence”.

”Kostymen sys i det tysta” is also a personal composition: in 2016 I was diagnosed with leukemia resulting in several years of treatment.

The piece has two sides:

The music has a kind of inherent uncertainty that comes from the two playing techniques that the entire piece is based on: glissandi and multiphonics. Both techniques create instability and ambivalence regarding pitch, and this “musical anxiety” could illustrate the fear of death felt by someone mortally ill.

But there is also a positive side – and the piece should mainly be considered an optimistic one – because both these playing techniques are also suitable for creating soundscapes full of thoughtfulness, illustrating for example gratitude for life and science and the importance of human relations.

The piece is dedicated to Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, who premiered it in 2022, and also to my sister Anna and her stem cells – without them, it is not certain that I would have been alive today.

Live recording with Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, March 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Painting by Anna Riebe.

Kostymen sys i det tysta (with Stockholm Saxophone Quartet 2024)

BRAINWASHING, for Sax4tet & Wind Band                        Marco Pütz (2023)

1 – Dependency
2 – Dissonance
3 – Attitude Change

BRAINWASHING was composed in 2023 on behalf the Amstel Saxophone Quartet (NL) and the Ministry of Culture, Luxembourg.

I had the idea for this piece in 2022 after reading a very interesting article about the book Brainwashing, the science of thought control  by Kathleen Taylor.

Brainwashing is ubiquitous: written media, social media, tv, advertising, politics, religion . . . 

But I was primarily interested in the background, the psychology of brainwashing/thought control.

So, this piece may be understood as a psychological manipulation set to music.

From a psychological point of view, brainwashing consists of three successive phases, which can be followed in my music:

1-Dependency: 

A quiet, flowing theme is introduced by the vibraphone/glockenspiel. Soon this theme is taken up and developed further in fugato form by the sax-quartet and the orchestra.

A little later, the manipulator intervenes for the first time. Almost imperceptibly, he prepares and carries out his brainwashing.

The victim is still able to assert himself with his theme, even if it looks like his willpower is already weakening towards the end of the movement.

2-Dissonance:

In the second movement the manipulator’s superiority grows more and more and step by step he succeeds in asserting himself and finally his victim resigns. The victim’s (the first) theme has definitely disappeared.

3-Attitude Change:

Different attitude, different music.

The brainwasher has reached his goal – the victim is in the clutches of his tormentor and is now guided and driven by him – however with an open-ended conclusion.

Duration: 19’  /   Grade: 6/6
Publisher (available from 09/24): www.bronsheimmusic.nl

BRAINWASHING, for Sax4tet & Wind Band (2023)

"what we carry" (2022) for saxophone quartet

Performers: 
Leo Schlaifer, soprano saxophone
Nick Napier, alto saxophone
Noah Stoker, tenor saxophone
Matt Dardick, baritone saxophone

Program Note:
there, in sweetness
in heat and heavy water
i am finding the love i have to carry

Recording by Nelson Gast at Nightingale Media

This project was supported in part through the EXCEL Enterprise Fund.

For more information about Nicole and her music, please visit: https://www.nicoleknorr.com

what we carry, for Saxophone Quartet (2024)

Moonlight

Nicole Knorr (b. 1999) is a composer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her work investigates transformation, change, and growth—often through the lens of the natural world. Her music has been described as having “remarkable command of melody” and is characterized by gleaming lyricism, sharp counterpoint, and a fundamental, underlying sense of whimsy.

Timothy Lee Miller is an American composer, orchestrator, arranger, and publisher writing contemporary classical and jazz music, as well as film and video game music.

We're a saxophone quartet based out of Fairfield County, CT playing unique and tuneful arrangements of the music we've loved all our lives - from The Great American Songbook and beyond. 

The SaxSationals can make your next party or gathering a special one - send us an email for details!

The Players:
Soprano Sax - Elliot Zelevansky
Alto Sax - Roddy Pohl
Tenor Sax - Lou Rupnik
Baritone Sax - Al Thomson

Composer of contemporary music – orchestral pieces, chamber music and electroacoustic music.
Based in Lund, Sweden.

Described as “contemporary, edgy, descriptive, and extremely soulful,” Sally Lamb McCune has become an important voice in the rising generation of American composers. Her catalog ranges from chamber music to works for chorus, wind ensemble and orchestra.  McCune lives and works in Ithaca, New York, where she teaches at Ithaca College.

Therealphilgold hasn’t performed live since 1987, but hasn’t stopped playing and writing music for over 60 years. His musical tastes range widely, from The Chieftains to The Clash, from Dick Dale to Dvorak.  Primarily a guitarist and bass player, his earlier instrumental, guitar driven songs cover a spectrum from mellow lullabies to atmospheric rock. As his abilities and inclinations evolved, Phil has been increasingly tempted with “Classical” and orchestral music. Now a denizen of Portugal, he has been collaborating with David “The White Haired Man” Hassler to both write and record new songs and add lyrics to some older works. 

Phil also has the dubious distinction of having the most-downloaded tune for 4 days among pre-teens in Malaysia …. It’s a long story ……

|Biografia|

Rodrigo Lima nasceu em Guarulhos-SP em 1976. Sua música tem sido apresentada em salas de concerto no Brasil, Chile, México, Espanha, França, Holanda, Bélgica e Estados Unidos por conjuntos como Ensemble Aleph, Sonor Ensemble, Camerata Aberta, Camerata de las Américas, Quinteto Brasília, OrchestrUtopica, dentre outros. Lima é bacharel em composição pela Universidade de Brasília (UnB) e Mestre pelo Instituto de Artes da UNICAMP. Atualmente é professor de composição e matérias teóricas da EMESP - Escola de Música do Estado de São Paulo e da Academia de Música da OSESP. Rodrigo Lima é membro da 'Sociedade General de Autores y Editores' (SgAe) e suas partituras são publicadas pela Babel Score (França), Da Vinci Edition (Japão) e pela Academia Brasileira de Música.

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|Biography|

Brazilian composer, Rodrigo Lima was born in Guarulhos-São Paulo (1976). Bachelor in Musical Composition Degree at the Department of Music  University of Brasília and Masters at the Art Institute of the University of Campinas State (UNICAMP) in São Paulo. 

 He has obtained some prizes in National and International Competitions: III Prize International Iberoamericano Rodolfo Halffter 2008 de Composition (Mexico), Composer in residence in 5th international forum for young composers 2008 with Ensemble Aleph in Lyon and Paris (France), 3ºrd Prize Francisco Guerreiro Martín at the XVII Premio Jóvenes Compositores 2006 Fundación Autor-CDMC in Madrid (Spain), Prize for Classical Composition of the National Arts Foundation 2010 (FUNARTE) in Brazil and 1ºst Prize Camargo Guarnieri 2005 of Composition (Brazil). 

Limas Music has been performed by the Ensemble Aleph (France), Abstrai Ensemble (Brazil), Camerata de las Amércicas (Mexico), Sonor Ensemble (Spain), Camerata Aberta (Brazil), Proxima Centauri (France), Ensemble Linea (France), Orchestrutopica (Lisboa-Portugal), 'Ensemble Brasileiro de Música Moderna' (Brazil),  Symphonic Orchestra of the São Paulo University (Brazil), Quinteto Brasília (Brazil), conductors: Guillaume Bourgogne (France), Luis Aguirre (Spain), Cesário Costa (Portugal), Kirk Trevor (England), Emílio De Cesar and Osvaldo Colarusso (Brazil). 

Rodrigo Lima is teacher of composition at the EMESP - School of Music of São Paulo State and harmony and analysis at the Academy of Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchestra. Lima is a member of the General Society of Authors and Editors  (SGAE) in Spain.

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