Dorothy's Short List of Works Short List of Works Available Please click on the piece's title to see the first page sample of each score. Some links are still under construction. The direct repetition of the poetry, and the contrasting imagery of universal and personal themes merge well with my ideas of textural independence and focus in creating musical forms. In three movements.
Step is a process exploration of harmonic and rhythmic patterns.
Slow Dance is romantic in an emotional and traditionally musical sense. It focuses on melody, giving each musician melodic fragments which gradually intertwine and meld into one texture by the end of the movement. Mosh exploits rhythms and timbral color using the instruments in percussive and extended ways, and also as a tight unit. Each instrument gets an extended virtuosic solo in this short, driving movement. Commissioned for Scott Deal, Robyn Deal and Rosemary Chanceler and premiered on the American Originals series in Fairbanks, Alaska in April 1997.