Product Description
Performed by Lori and Kevin Sutherland
This piece was composed for my student and her friend, both in
seventh grade at the time. There is not a large repertoire for clarinet
and horn at the middle school level unless using a "duets for all" type
of book, so I decided to write a piece for them.
As a clarinet player, I included some items I
knew would show up later in her music studies, such as
slur-two-tongue-two articulation and use of the left-hand C to
facilitate jumping to Eb. Fortunately for me, my husband plays horn and
gave me good feedback on that part (thanks, Kevin!).
The piece begins with the fanfare, with the
horn leading the call and the clarinet responding. The roles switch
midway through the first section with a few changes to the secondary
line. The middle section does not change in tempo but in feeling. This
is the fable, or story of the piece. Here the articulation is mostly
slurred, creating smooth lines and a gentler feel. The piece then
emerges into a recap of the first section, with the clarinet playing a
descant above the horn melody.
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