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Fabrication 5: Spinach
2008
soprano
tenor
offstage piccolo trumpet in A
duration 3—7'
SCORE
PROGRAM NOTE
I typically write music with fairly involved programmatic intentions along with forms that echo or amplify them. However, I also enjoy music that simply unfolds a process or a ‘conceit’. Fabrication 5: Spinach is a component part of a larger 32-movement cycle for various ensembles ranging from solos and duos to works for orchestra. These Fabrications explore more mechanical approaches to generating music. Each has a subtitle; a synonym of ‘fabrication’ which says something about the piece itself.
Fabrication 5: Spinach consists of three silly walking or driving songs triggered by information about the performers, the weather, and the audience juxtaposed with an unrelated offstage piccolo trumpet obbligato.
see also Fabrications