Northern Spire

About Search

Search (1999) is essentially my first Brass Quintet.  It was composed while I was still a student at the Crane School of Music, but I still think it holds up pretty well against many of my more "mature" pieces.  It begins with the use of a melody built on a synthetic scale that I have since used in other compositions.  The second movement is a brief, slow "interlude", built on a melody that was contrived from an unusual series of pitches.  The third movement is a fairly straightforward Theme and Variations.  Movement four serves as a kind of "development" on the ideas of the movements that precede it, something I have done in later works, as well, (i.e. Quintet for Winds (2015)). 

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Below is a recording of the final two movements from the piece's performance at my senior composition recital in 2001.  Click the title page image above for some sample pages from the score.