Jazz Rhapsody - This piece demonstrates a desire to blend seemingly opposed styles into a unified and hopefully fresh mix. These elements included Baroque-like textures and imitations, lines somewhat akin to the English Pastoralists and jazz based harmonies and inflections.
Chaconne - I wrote this Chaconne when I was eighteen, and I can remember that I was aiming to create a piece which would gradually increase in lushness of both texture and harmony as it progressed. The Chaconne form of a repeating bass line with variations above it seemed the ideal structure for this, and the piece soon leaves the realm of the Baroque, passing into a world of richer extended harmonies and chromatic inflections. However, the bass line which is heard clearly at the beginning remains intact throughout, and is therefore coaxed into yielding these 'reminiscent' variations from another stylistic world.
- Timothy Blinko
Parts included in the set:
- Score
- Part 1 - Bb Clarinet
- Part 2 - Bb Clarinet
- Part 3 - Bb Clarinet
- Part 4 - Bb Clarinet
- Part 4 - Bass Clarinet
