Instrumental Solo Composition of the Day, Installment 26:
"Unsettled Pastorale"
for
Oboe Solo
(2022)
"Unsettled Pastorale" was composed for oboist Ava Wirth. I've loved the sound of pastoral oboe music ever since hearing a Christmas piece in 6/8 time I heard in high school choir. That music was modal; the chromatically saturated musical language of "Unsettled Pastorale" isn't. The first and last notes are the same, but one almost doesn't notice it.
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"Unsettled Pastorale" is available for licensing from me, and sale from Sheet Music Plus.
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Thank you for your time and attention.
Stanley M. Hoffman, PhD
Biography Published in Grove Music Online (The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Oxford University Press)
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