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The first movement of MOVE! is a short fanfare in a swing style.



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The first movement of MOVE! is a short fanfare in a swing style.
MOVE! is a suite of compositions for jazz band composed as my Masters project while at Western Michigan University.
Inspired by a famous Robert Frost poem, this wind ensemble composition paints a picture of a road through the woods. The recording is from a reading session by the OSU Wind Symphony.
This was my first large ensemble composition, written as my major undergraduate composition project. It's a series of four variations on an old hymn-song. Each variation draws it's stylistic inspiration from the text. I remember putting a lot of effort into the different stylistic ideas, especially moving from a heavily dissonant variation into a Bach-like chorale-fugue. It was very self important and very clumsy. The fascinating thing is how different the ideas and aesthetics of this music are from what I do now.