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This piece navigates through 8 different melodic contours (what I have called threads) through 5 distinct sound spaces. Players should pay special attention to their role inside of the texture shifting from polyphony to heterophony and into homophony. The “Jagged and frayed” section of the work should be played with extreme rhythmic precision, emphasizing accuracy of note placement over expression.

The threads of these contours are pinned at specific notes throughout the composition. Each thread’s unfolding functions on parameters of intervallic expansion.

Written for Ensemble 20+ at DePaul University for my Master’s in Music Composition degree.

Dedicated to my brother, who has found the most precise ways of pinning the threads of my life.

For

Piccolo/Flute, Clarinet in B-flat, Trumpet in C, Trombone (with F trigger attachment), 2 Percussionists (2 Kick drums, 1 concert bass drum, temple blocks, ratchet, suspended cymbal, low and medium toms, 2 bongos, china cymbal, splash cymbal, triangle, crotales, 4 gongs), Piano/Celeste, Violin, Viola, Cello, Contrabass