Fragments

Composed in 2015 for SATB

Advanced Student / Very Accessible

Duration: 10 minutes

Fragments was written for the Capital Chamber Choir with a Senior Arts Grant from the City of Ottawa. It uses five very short “fragments” of poetry by Susan McMaster. Except for a few measure in the middle movement, it is entirely diatonic, but not conventionally tonal. It is minimalist in two ways: It has movements and sections that are extremely short but also creates textures through repetition.