Michael Betz

Two Movements for Wind Quintet [MIDI Demo]

by Michael Betz

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Two Movements for Wind Quintet (2012) is a study on how far minute amounts of melodic and harmonic material can be stretched. The primary sonority of the first movement is a minor-major ninth chord. The omnipresent motive of the descending half-step is a result of the chord being revoiced so that the interval between the third and ninth of the chord changes from a minor ninth to a major seventh. This concept of “resolving” a dissonance to a lesser dissonance is present throughout the first movement. The jazz-influenced second movement features the dominant seventh sharp ninth chord, but retains melodic motives and certain harmonic passages from the first movement. The augmented scale sinuously weaves throughout both movements, and is the final tie that binds together two highly contrasting sections of music.

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released 12 April 2012

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Michael Betz is a composer, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and theory nerd currently residing in Mason City, ... more Iowa. He dabbles in a multitude of genres, from classical to jazz to metal to electronica to musical theatre and anywhere in between. To summarize: eclectic, electric, et cetera. less

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