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  Opus 221

Octet Variations
for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet, Horn, Violin and Double Bass

In many ways my composition output is biographical. As I am completing this work, I am also recording my Matthew Locke CD, so I have many inspirations from his work, that will continue on to my Eb symphony, but the dance movements (the variations) are clearly  inspired by the other music I am playing.

This work is not an enigma variation; it is base on a snapshot of music from my Chamber Symphony no. 10.
In listening to Bach Cantatas, there are a few that sound like Bach just started right in the middle of the piece, maybe the first page was lost, but I don’t think so. It just stared up in a random place. The first part after in the initial 8 bar quote, is then a development of that, a fugue and mini-variations.

Interview style talk by the composer.

Being that the two string instruments are a little unusual to the in this ensemble, the first real variation features them, modeled after a medieval Estampie.
The big variation movements then are:
III. a fast Sarabande
IV.  Pavane
V. Finale
VI. Jigg

Demo of the work.

 

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Program Cover from the premiere of Burdick's Op. 234Program Cover from the premiere of Burdick's Op. 234

Program from the premiere of Burdick's Op. 234Program from teh premiere of Burdick's Op. 234

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