Song cycle: The Polishers of Brass; Books; The Struggle.
2002, Revised in 2004, 2007, 2008, 2021 and 2024 | soprano/trumpet.
2021, Revised 2024 | soprano/oboe.
Poems by Toi Derricotte (b.1941).
Originally 5 settings: The Minks; The Struggle; Books; The Polishers of Brass; The Weakness.
ERRATA
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Song 2:
Trumpet: use a Harmon mute throughout
Song 3:
Trumpet: m. 23 – first 8th of m. 26: take down an 8va
Trumpet: m. 37: rhythms should be two dotted 8ths
Trumpet: m. 56: the first note should be Ab (concert Gb)
Voice: m. 92: put the fermata on the first F# — “What”, then go down to A4, and then down to G#4