Crest
Tayloe Harding
About this work:
A short, exuberant work commissioned by noted hornist/composer Paul Basler, CREST (2000) is a work dominated by a single main melody. It also exhibits some mono-thematic construction typical of many of the composer’s solo works, and this feature suggests the work’s form. About CREST’s dominant trait, the highly thematic melody, the composer writes:
"I had been hearing this periodic tune in my head since the late 1970’s and had never encountered a real chance to use it in a serious and/or mature composition. It does appear in a student jazz work from that time, but I always liked the nature of the tune and wanted to be able to use it in just the right solo-type piece for just the right player."
Year composed: 2000
Duration: 00:05:30
Ensemble type: Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice
Instrumentation: 1 Horn in F, 1 Piano
Instrumentation notes: Horn and Piano