To Aegir
Garth Baxter, Composer
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Category: Chamber Music / Guitar Ensemble
Instrumentation: guitar ensemble
Duration: 5–6 minutes
Difficulty: Intermediate
Publisher: Les Productions D’OZ
To Aegir is an expressive guitar ensemble work that brings together atonal, tonal, and bitonal writing within a compact dramatic form. Romantic and lyrical in character, the piece recalls aspects of Alban Berg’s expressive world while using a contemporary harmonic language shaped by tension, color, and forward motion.
The music moves between angular intensity and lyrical reflection, allowing consonance and dissonance to function within Baxter’s own expressive framework. Performed by dozens of college guitar ensembles, To Aegir offers a compelling example of Baxter’s ability to combine modern harmonic approaches with clear emotional direction and performer-friendly chamber writing.
Suitable for intermediate guitar ensembles, To Aegir is well suited for college programs, contemporary guitar ensemble concerts, and repertoire exploring the meeting point between lyrical expression and modern harmonic language.
“In To Aegir, Baxter melds together the worlds of the atonal and tonal. By combining aspects of 12 tone music with more traditional tonal languages, he creates a world that is sometimes lyrical and romantic, sometimes sharply angular and tense, but always driving forward, full of color and emotional expression. The music commands its own definition of what it considers consonant and dissonant. It is a successful example of how old and new musical languages and styles can co-exist within the framework of a single piece of music.”