Richards: Swan Song for Basset Clarinet (or clarinet in A) and Piano Bassoon Music_Bassoon which is suggestive of the

which is suggestive of the often unbridled

The following section of this movement introduces a new melody in the saxophone and the piano against the austere background of the repeated accompaniment

Code: JP2139

Prairie Portraits was commissioned and premiered by Carolyn Hove of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for her master class in Muncie

ISMN: 979-0-3019-0374-2

Richards: Swan Song for Basset Clarinet (or clarinet in A) and Piano Bassoon Music_Bassoon which is suggestive of theCode: JP2076 ISMN: 979 0 3019 0058 1 There is a myth that the swan, tuneless for its entire life, will, just before dying, suddenly find its voice and sing. The basset clarinet was presumed to have sang its swan song sometime in the late eighteenth century, having been replaced by more modern instruments. This too, however, is a myth, as the instrument has its champions even to this day, including Peter Wright, for whom this work was written. An