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

29 Figure 15. Concerto for Alto Saxophone 1 st movement, measures 165-172. Creston chord built first in saxophones, then followed by clarinets with alto sax 1 providing the pivot pitch between tonalities. Same two chords introduced simultaneously in the trumpets and horns at measure 171 with horn 1 providing the pivot pitch. As the ensemble provides sharp, pointed attacks that quicken then lessen in speed in contrast to a flowing melody in the solo line, the horns prepare to announce the motive at measure 188. The first pitch (Db) is played by stopped horn for two full measures, then open for two and a half measures growing from niente to fortissimo where they are then joined by the first trombone for the statement of the motive in its native form. At measure 227, Bryant states the motive in the saxophone soloist and high brass, beginning on pitch 5, using the half-step movement from the flatted fifth into pitch one