Signature for Tempo
for soprano and piano
1976
9 minutes
Poetry: Archibald MacLeish
Premiere: Raquel Cortina, soprano
Mary Ann Bulla, piano
University of New Orleans
April 2, 1977
[Not available for performance]
Composer Notes: There are four songs in this set. Like some of my other works from this period, this set of songs begins atonally, but ends on a definite pitch center. Within two years even my most chromatic writing develops within a series of perceptible pitch frameworks.