Score (15 pp.) + Parts (6 pp.)

Format: PDF

Duration: 4 1/2 min.

Catalogue No.: 046

Program Note

This piece owes its entire existence to the well-known jazz standards, This Can’t be Love and Take the A Train. Due to a happy happenstance, both of these tunes are in AABA form, and, furthermore, both tunes have exactly 17 notes in BOTH their A sections and their B sections. This coincidence allowed for extensive experimentation using recombinant musical-DNA techniques. That is to say, the rhythm of one tune fit very nicely onto the melody of the other and vice-versa. The result is certainly not “The A Train,” but it might be the “Quatrain.”

Since June of 2010, I have arranged this piece for several different instrumental combinations including: horn quartet, bassoon quartet, clarinet quartet, clarinet and piano, alto saxophone and piano, and a trio for oboe, bassoon, and piano.