Full Work Lists: Solo Instrumental Music

Exhortation II (2008)

for soprano saxophone solo, 14 minutes

Instrumentation
soprano saxophone solo
(Version for oboe solo, 1996)

Publication
Jeanne Publications, Minneapolis, MN

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Program Notes

This 13.5 minute solo, originally composed for oboe, was adapted for soprano saxophone in 2008. The solo is a set of four variations which exploit the many diverse aspects of the instrument. Although the movements are called "variations," they are not traditional variations in the sense of varying a pre-existing theme or harmonic progression; rather, they display a different feature of the saxophone in each variation, and present a specific technical challenge in each.

—Andrew Earle Simpson