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Montrose Theme & Variations
for Woodwind Trio including Flute, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet
by Frank Horvat (5:30min)
Theme & 4 Variations each being around 1 min

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Musicians: Rozalind MacPhail (Flute), Michael Westwood (Clarinet), Michele Jacot (Bass Clarinet)

Producer/Engineer: Frank Horvat

 

 


Programme Notes...

After a significant amount of study on the Theme & Variations musical form, I was ready to put my own stamp on it. Compositionally, I find it interesting how the form allows you to stray far away from your original basic theme. I took this philosophy to the extreme with my treatment :

  • Theme: Regal, Noble, tonal, lyrical, smooth, classical in approach
  • 1st Variation: Sad, Sombre, still tonal and smooth, but in a minor key instead and with changes in rhythm
  • 2nd Variation: Vivace, lively, faster, more rhythmic and dissonant, atonal
  • 3rd Variation: Marcato, well marked, pointillistic texture alla Webern
  • 4th Variation: Maestoso, majestic, back to lyrical and classical approach

The word Montrose in the title refers to the street in Toronto where I had my first apartment.

- Frank Horvat

LT#03, composed in 1995

 

 




 
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