Mark Watkins

ATB, improv in sopranol. Count Basie medium swing style. Somewhat challenging soli/shout section with 16th note passages in soprano and tenor unisons with bari and alto harmonic support occasionally j...

SATB, improv in soprano and bari. Compositionally complex, this work is based on fourths and altered chords and scales such as lydian dominant and the super-lodrian or diminished whole-tone. Following...

2 flutes, tenor (doubles on clarinet), bass clarinet, improv in tenor (feature). Feature ballad for tenor saxophone. Designed to be played by a saxophone quartet that doubles. Patterned after a Baroqu...

SATB, improv in soprano and alto. Quartet reduction of wind ensemble with quartet composition. Makes use of rhythm changes, ostinato, and modal techniques within a straight 16th contemporary style. Im...

SATB, improv in soprano. 7:30. Based on a Newfoundland folk tune that helps audiences to relate to the composition. Difficulty lies in use of mixed meters; however, meters fit into a groove that makes...

AATB, solos in alto 1 and tenor. The groove is straight, based on a hip-hop beat concept. In rondo form with an ethereal melody over an open fifth modal sound leading into bebop 16ths and modern harmo...

SATB quartet with rhythm section. Quartet not designed to stand alone (harmonies take advantage of roots in the double bass). Solos in bar and alto. Altered harmonic progression stemming from ''''''''...

SATB quartet with rhythm section. Quartet not designed to stand alone (harmonies take advantage of roots in the double bass). Alto feature with homophonic and contrapuntal support from the quartet enr...

SATB. The 'FOUR' in the title is a tribute to the quartet it was written for, FOUR. Of course 'FOURway' suggests an equal meeting; the 'Stop' is a cluster that appears periodically. The a cappella ver...

This composition was premiered at the Scotland World Saxophone Congress. (Originally written for the pianist in the quintet Out Of Nowhere, upon request for a tune that was 'freer or edgier,' the quar...