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Duet for Flutes
This canon at the augmented fourth was a study in the octatonic scale. It was an interesting challenge because I restricted the range of each flute to a minor
tetrachord.
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Prelude
This composition for woodwind quartet was a "motif" study for
composition class. I don't think my instructor had something this
Baroque in mind.
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Fanfare
One of the best things I wrote in college. When my instructor heard this composition for brass quartet, he
gave it what was, for him, the ultimate compliment: "Yeah, that works."
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Instrumental Committee
This piece was scored for two oboes, a trombone, and a tuba. It was an melange of four strikingly different musical ideas. I thought this was one of the most miserable things I had ever written, but everyone else seemed to like it.
Or maybe they were just being polite.
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Two Oboes Arguing About Their Favorite Key
A duet for oboes. Here, I learned that if you write for oboes, you must give them a place to breathe. Oops.
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Album for Violin (1993)
A collection of instructional pieces written for violin and piano.
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Flute Quartet in F Major (1998)
A sonata in the Viennese Classical style for flute, two violins, and 'cello. I started work on this when I was still in college in the early '80s, and finished it early in 1998.
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