A Conductor’s and Performer’s Guide to Steven Bryant’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone - Chester Jenkins

22 Figure 8. Concerto for Alto Saxophone 1 st movement, measure 63. Chord built from the Creston motive A- G-E-F-Ab. The Creston motive is rhythmically augmented in measure 79, and is used as a bass line performed by the bassoons, bass clarinets and double bass. The motive is disrupted by octave displacement between pitches 1 and 2, pitches 3 and 4 and between pitches 5 and 6. This disguises the motive through augmentation and octave displacement. This long line supports a soaring melody from the soloist, built as well from the motive, though much more rhythmically complex.