Unison Canons
Paul Dickinson
About this work:
Unison Canons consists of a lively unison melodic line in sixteenth notes followed by three canons. The second movement takes the unison line of Movement 1 and renders it as a canon with entrances one sixteenth note apart. In Movements 3 and 4, the canon entrances are two and three sixteenth notes apart, respectively. The effect of these canons at short time intervals is analogous to viewing an image through beveled glass. These four movements, playable by any three melodic instruments, are drawn from my work Nine Pieces for Woodwind Trio.
Year composed: 2001
Duration: 07:00:80
Ensemble type: Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice:Other Combinations, 2-5 players
Instrumentation:
Instrumentation notes: For any three melodic instruments, preferably in the same range (C4 to E6), although transposition to other octaves for instruments of different ranges is possible.