Mai for Solo Alto Saxophone 中音薩氏管 薩氏管

日本作曲家野田亮（Ryo Noda）的《Maï》是一首獨特的薩克斯獨奏曲，深受日本音樂的影響。這首曲子的音色與古箏和尺八的音色十分接近，演奏起來非常複雜，技術性很強"

作曲家: Ryo Noda
樂器: Alto Sax
出版社: Alphonse Leduc

曲目:
Mai (Alto Saxophone)

原文簡介:
Maï by Ryo Noda, a Japanese composer, is a unique piece of work for solo saxophone that is strongly influenced by Japanese music. With some sonority supposed to be quite close to those of a koto and of a shakuhachi, this piece is very technical and complex to play.

The story behind this work is about the ghost of a Japanese Samurai. While his wife asks why he let her behind and left to fight in the war, he tries to justify his choices. Most of the work depicts the struggle within the mind of the Samurai, between ending his life and living in the end of his enemies. The screaming altissimo at the end is the climax of his struggle which then followed by a 10 second silence that represents his death. The technical abilities required are: large interval leaps, rapid trills, alternate fingerings to achieve pitch bending, multiphonics, altissimo, portamento and cutting tone.