Ascending Lines

Instrumentation: trombone octet

Duration: 3

Written in: 1997

Category: Chamber

Ascending Lines plays with chromatically ascending and descending scales and the Medieval compositional technique of the hocket, where a single line is broken up and performed by several voices. It was written in 1997 and first performed at the International Trombone Festival at the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana in the same year.