B-flat Piece
(1970)
“B-flat Piece” is a parody of a common 1960’s put-down of conventional band music. It is decidedly not a “B-flat piece,” using graphic notation, improvisation, and a general encouragement of somewhat structured chaos to poke fun at a tired, unfair, and now irrelevant, cliché.
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Instrumentation
- Open Instrumentation (any level)
Premiere
Shenandoah Conservatory, Winchester VA, January 1975
Shenandoah Conservatory Concert Band, Paul Noble, conductor
Publisher
Media Press, Inc.