Sand Trap
for flute and bassoon
Duration: ca. 5’30”
Program Note:
Sand Trap takes influence from the spontaneous, jagged unison lines played by bebop horn section pairings — Cannonball Adderley and Miles Davis or Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, for example — as well as the unison rhythms played by saxophone sections in big-bands. One can imagine a mini golf ball flying in the air spinning and bouncing on the turf after a putt, only to bounce to a halt into a sand trap, then to be smacked out and land right in the hole for a stroke well over par.
• Swing style for both players should be in a loose, relaxed, breathy swing
• Notes in parenthesis refer to “ghosted” notes – these can be performed by any combination of de-emphasizing the pitch of the note, playing softer, covering in the phrase, or omitting if totally necessary.
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