Hiccups!!

2019
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Chamber Music

Details

instrumentation

Bassoon

duration

4 minutes

commissioned by

premiered by

Cecil Nelson

Hiccups!! is, as clearly as the title suggests, about hiccups: the entire piece is primarily based on a hiccup-like motive of a wide ascending leap and its variations. The leaps become wider, and the mood becomes wilder… and let’s see what happens at the end!! I composed this 5-minute piece for Cecil Nelson, a former student of mine at Syracuse University.