tritonicity
Premiere with eighth blackbird
tritonicity is a piece based thematically on a tritone. While considered one of the harshest intervals to the ear, it is used extensively in classical and jazz music because of its instability. This piece vascillates through jazz-inflected sections and lyrical, flowing sections while maintaining the importance of the tritone throughout. The performers have the added challenge of moving between swing eighths, common to the jazz idiom and straight eighths. tritonicity features the bass clarinet in many of the faster passages then contrasts it with extended tertian textures inherent in both jazz and twentieth century music.
