Tonal Fabrications (2019)

Bassoon Quartet – ca. 13 min.

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Tonal Fabrications is the harvest from one of those sessions when I look over unused sketches of tunes and ideas that I’d love to share but haven’t found a home. Once I considered dressing the tunes of the Carol and Fandango in the sound and character of the bassoon and then exploded that magical mix by a factor of four, I knew I’d found the ideal match. The material of the Promenade had been used as a movement from my organ mass “Ordinary Pieces,” but I’ve always wanted to hear it as a bassoon quartet. These three pieces needed an introductory movement and I had a title — Kerfuffle — which needed a busy, swirling musical incarnation: could that be anything other than a bassoon quartet?