 | LiPuma, Nelly - Gingko biloba Alto Saxophone, Piano |
| Composer : Arranger : Publisher : | LiPuma, Nelly | ||
| Instrumentation : | Alto Saxophone, Piano | ||
| Style : | Contemporary | ||
| Lyricist : | Nelly LiPuma | ||
| Date : | 2021 | ||
| Copyright : | Copyright © Nelly LiPuma | ||
| Added by musicanuova, 19 Oct 2021 Gingko biloba is a piece of great energy and full of contrasts, in free form. The piece opens with an incisive rhythm on the piano topped by a long note on the sax that flows into a line of well-accented descending fifths, and then rises again with decision. After a strongly rhythmic exposition, full of dynamic surprises, we arrive at the central section, meas. 63, where the piano prepares, with an ostinato of sextuplets, a melodic carpet for saxophone multiphonics. The sound cloud created by the multiphonics is followed by the rhythmic call of the piano bass, at m.77, which brings us back to Tempo I, m. 99, where the saxophone sings a strong tune on an accompaniment in G major lydian, a tonality that is in itself luminous and highly energetic, like the yellow flowers of the Gingko. In the section from 117 to 143, the timbre of the two instruments merges into a soft color conferred by the ostinato accompaniment of the piano with its F7 chord. An energetic recapitulation, after a gliss. on the piano, measure 154, takes us to the final section, on the golden aura of a C sprinkling of energy. The anacrusic attack of the saxophone, in Fp, at m.162, creates a dynamic surprise followed by a cresc. which, on audacious leaps of register, lead to a brilliant and peremptory ending. Gingko biloba is a piece full of rhythmic tension and plays of color where the timbres of both instruments blend and enrich each other, creating captivating sound atmospheres. | |||
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