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Five Fugues Based on Pop Songs for piano (2021)

Posted on November 4, 2021November 4, 2021 by Jay Batzner

Sometimes I have fun by taking pop music hooks and turning them into fugues. I made several of these back in April 2020 as a project I called Ludicrous Tonalis. These are some of my favorite recent examples. Download the score: Five Fugues Centerfugue Manic Fugue-day Sir Fugue Get Ur Fugue On Total Eclipse of…

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Threads for flute choir (2021)

Posted on October 7, 2021 by Jay Batzner

Threads was inspired by simple Renaissance melodic imitation techniques, specifically “stretto fuga.” I learned about the technique from the YouTube channel Early Music Sources and decided to play with it a little and see what I could make. The end result also draws on my influence from the dissonant counterpoint found in mid-20th Century American…

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A Thing I Cannot Name for flute (2019)

Posted on October 7, 2021 by Jay Batzner

for Tammy Evans Yonce “All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem.” — Hunter S. Thompson Download the score: A Thing I Cannot Name

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push pins for alto sax (2021)

Posted on October 7, 2021 by Jay Batzner

One day I was walking back to my office when my colleague John Nichol (whose office was right next door to mine at the time) stopped me and said “Look at this. Isn’t this kind of nice?” and he pointed to the arrangement of thumbtacks on my bulletin board. There wasn’t a particular pattern or…

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Hindrances for solo guitar (2019)

Posted on October 7, 2021 by Jay Batzner

Writing for guitar can be a little intimidating to composers who don’t play it. While I did take some lessons in order to better understand classical guitar technique, I was definitely intimidated by Kenji Haba’s request for a new piece. I turned to miniatures inspired by the Five Hindrances found in Buddhism. These short movements…

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Monsters for solo guitar (2020)

Posted on October 7, 2021October 7, 2021 by Jay Batzner

I read a lot of comics and I always enjoy when I can talk about comic book stories and such. When Andy Jurik approached me about writing a new piece, he was specifically interested in the comic My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris. Going through the story I found there were so many…

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Joseki for soprano sax and delay (2020)

Posted on October 7, 2021October 7, 2021 by Jay Batzner

I enjoy playing abstract strategy games but I’m not very good at them. One game that I would really like to play more and get better at is Go. Where the game of chess has opening moves and gambits and whatnots, in Go there is the concept of “joseki” or what kinds of stone placements…

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Upon Julia’s Voice for SATB choir (2020)

Posted on October 7, 2021 by Jay Batzner

This setting of Robert Herrick’s poem was original composed as the final section of an extended dance collaboration piece titled Folds based on vocal biology. The choir piece served as the foundation for the rest of Folds and I like it so much I decided to split it off into its own work. Upon Julia’s…

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Folds for SATB soloists or choir (2020)

Posted on October 7, 2021April 18, 2022 by Jay Batzner

Folds was composed as a dance collaboration with Heather Trommer-Beardslee and Ann Dasen to represent aspects of vocal biology. The work’s four section trace the development of breath into utterance, utterance into words, and words into music. The piece was composed to celebrate World Voice Day in 2020 for Joshua May at Columbus State University….

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Two Shorter Songs for medium voice and alto sax (2020)

Posted on October 7, 2021January 11, 2022 by Jay Batzner

Two Shorter Songs was originally composed for countertenor Jerry Hui and saxophonist Aaron Durst. Whenever a composer is given the opportunity to write for a countertenor with perfect pitch, we are honor-bound to do so! I am thrilled that Jerry and Aaron were open to me writing for them. Texts by Dora Sigerson Shorter Beware…

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