Tuba Song (1992)

Tuba Song was written for Dan Petit. The pitch material of the piece is drawn from transcriptions of two Navaho songs, rhythms are freely composed and flexibly performable (pauses between phrases, sustained sounds, running figurations are all of relatively unspecified duration). Structural units are arranged in a manner somewhat analogous to the song structures. The music is written to be played as a solo or, with two tubas or one of two tuba parts on tape, in free heterophony.