- Title
- Dark Landscape
- Year
- 1985
- Instrumentation
- for solo English Horn
- Notes
- Written for Julie Giacobassi, principal English Horn, San Francisco Symphony. While the bassoon can masquerade as a French Horn, and the oboe confused with a muted trumpet, there is no mistaking the English horn's dark, pungent, and wonderfully hollow sound. Unorthodox fingerings and lip pressure produce multiphonics, which allow us to "listen inside" the note, as though with a microscope; the player appears to produce a "chord."
