Requiem for the lost soul

2015: DeLand, Florida.

ca. 5 minutes

solo Clarinet

Premiered by Ashley Oliveto at Stetson University.

Written for the 2015 Stetson University Composition Contest. 

This piece was written shortly after the discussion of serialization and set theory in my undergraduate level theory class. At the time I thought it was exceedingly clever to continue the numeric ordering of pitches (0123456789AB) to include the entire english alphabet by restarting the chromatic scale. Once I had this system in place I started thinking of possible titles that sounded cool and landed on the title above. I then used my chart to turn the letters into a string of pitches that are initially heard as the opening of the piece. I have had mixed reactions to the work both by myself and my colleagues, but I welcome your opinions on this and any other of my pieces via my CONTACT page. 

The score can be found here.