Description
Bebop Riddle V is by turns sprightly, spry, energetic, and spirited. In this work, Thomas crafted animated, travelling, flexible, versatile, changing, fluid, and buoyant sonic adventures, a bit like two hummingbirds darting around a field of wildflowers. Iridescent, bold, and scintillating, the carefully sculpted and fashioned musical materials of Bebop Riddle V are agile and vivacious, and their flexibility allows pathways to braid harmonic, rhythmic, and contrapuntal elements that are constantly transformed -- variously whimsical, jazzy and bebop-like, layered, and reverberating, with lyrical resonance, pirouettes, fulcrum points, and vitality. The two equally virtuosic parts -- requiring highly characterized dynamics and articulations, as well as fast fingering changes -- sparkle forth for 8 minutes, unfolding fourteen continuously developing phrases, each lasting between 15 and 50 seconds. The music is organic and concerned with transformations and connections at every level. Poetically speaking, this composition has a kind of fractal quality to it -- each part has a similar flair, twirl, whirl, pivot, and character as the whole. There are seven additional alternative instrumentation versions for Bebop Riddle V which can be purchased separately.
![Augusta Read Thomas - Augusta Read Thomas: Bebop Riddle V [for oboe & alto sax in E flat] - NMP1409](http://propermusic.com/cdn/shop/files/9790708229599.jpg?v=1784879215&width=1200)
![Augusta Read Thomas - Augusta Read Thomas: Bebop Riddle V [for oboe & alto sax in E flat] - NMP1409](http://propermusic.com/cdn/shop/files/9790708229599.jpg?v=1784879215&width=800)
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![Augusta Read Thomas - Augusta Read Thomas: Bebop Riddle V [for soprano sax in B flat & clarinet in B flat] - NMP1404](http://propermusic.com/cdn/shop/files/9790708229544.jpg?v=1784879220&width=700)
![Augusta Read Thomas - Augusta Read Thomas: Bebop Riddle V [for soprano sax in B flat & alto sax in E flat] - NMP1244](http://propermusic.com/cdn/shop/files/9790708192947.jpg?v=1784879218&width=700)
![Augusta Read Thomas - Augusta Read Thomas: Bebop Riddle V [for oboe & clarinet in B flat] - NMP1406](http://propermusic.com/cdn/shop/files/9790708229568.jpg?v=1784879218&width=700)
![Augusta Read Thomas - Augusta Read Thomas: Bebop Riddle V [for oboe & alto sax in E flat] - NMP1409](http://propermusic.com/cdn/shop/files/9790708229599.jpg?v=1784879215&width=700)
![Augusta Read Thomas - Augusta Read Thomas: Bebop Riddle V [for flute & clarinet in B flat] - NMP1405](http://propermusic.com/cdn/shop/files/9790708229551.jpg?v=1784879209&width=700)
![Augusta Read Thomas - Augusta Read Thomas: Bebop Riddle V [for flute & alto sax in E flat] - NMP1408](http://propermusic.com/cdn/shop/files/9790708229582.jpg?v=1784879208&width=700)
![Augusta Read Thomas - Augusta Read Thomas: Bebop Riddle V [for clarinet in B flat & alto sax in E flat] - NMP1410](http://propermusic.com/cdn/shop/files/9790708229605.jpg?v=1784879207&width=700)
