Please contact me to purchase scores, for perusal scores or recordings, or to commission a new work. Mobiles flute and guitar 2000 duration 8’30” Mobiles for flute and guitar is a musical depiction of spinning and rotation. Many aspects of this work, including the melodic lines, harmonic progressions, and form, were derived from the idea of rotation around an axis. The interaction between the musical layers produces the same effect as the multiple axes on a physical mobile. At times, the musical gestures in the flute and guitar become independent of the rhythmic beat just as the forms on the outer branches of the mobile rotate independently of the central axis. Throughout the piece, one instrument reacts to the other as an object suspended on the mobile would be set in motion by the subtlest breeze. This cause and effect relationship becomes most prevalent at the piece’s climax where the increasingly violent five and six-note chords in the guitar propel the musical mobile past its limit. Mobiles was premiered by Jenny Beavers (flute) and Tom Echols (guitar) in April 2001.
 
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