Sonata of fuzzy birds > Sonata of fluffy birds is a very weighty work among saxophone's contemporary works, which was created by the famous Japanese composer Yoshimatsu Takashi in 199 1 year. This work is very weighty because it needs a large number of players. The three movements of this work contain many difficult techniques of saxophone, including sliding, tongue-playing, over-blowing and so on. In the third movement, the author left a long cadenza for the performer to improvise, and these techniques should be added to the combination. Now back to music, this sonata inherits the fast, slow and fast structure of the three movements of the traditional sonata, and attaches a title to each movement. The three movements are run bird, sing bird and fly bird, and many Japanese pop elements are added to the three movements, which are different from modern music. Now I'm going to introduce the first movement, Running Birds. The beginning of music is a long introduction, and the introduction is Allegro. The introduction of this movement is different from that of other music. In most cases, the introduction of sonata is done by piano or saxophone, and the introduction of this movement is done by two instruments.

First, two repetitions of two two-bar melodies, which use the motivation of the presentation theme. The next box A is the dialogue between piano and saxophone. This part skips the previous 4/4 beats and changes the number of beats to1116 beats, which makes the rhythm more compact and strengthens the changes compared with the previous level. Next, box B is the connection between a free melody and a melody that returns to its original speed. Give people a feeling of alternating rhythm. After that, the presentation part starts from box C, and the time signature of the presentation part remains unchanged except in the 4/4 beat. The highlight here is the rhythm stress, which is different from traditional works. The rhythmic stress of this movement will fall on the second half beat or the last sixteenth note. This is a common writing technique in neoclassical works, which strengthens the sense of rhythm and adds a lot of rhythm changes. In the piano part, it is accompanied by a strong sense of rhythm, and the two parts echo each other well in rhythm.

The middle part is a beautiful melody, and the speed is Andante, which is in sharp contrast with the Allegro in front. In fact, the author uses this unique sound effect to interpret his understanding of the work. The beautiful melody in front and this piece of tongue play enrich the color of the whole movement. The reproduction part is basically the same as before. It is worth mentioning that the ending part adopts a set of upward modular techniques, and then ends with stress, making the ending part crisp and powerful!