This is a piece for woodwind quintet. There is a great deal of microtonal slides that might be challenging for the average wind instrumentalist.

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This piece is based on a progression of chords from the Partch tonality diamond:
C minor
D# minor
G minor
A# major
D++ major
F minor
Ab major
C minor

They are located on the tonality diamond in such a way that there are some very interesting intervals between notes in one chord and the next. For example, C minor contains a minor third at 6:5 above C, and D# minor contains a fifth at 7:6 above C. Moving from the 6:5 to the 7:6 is a 35:36, which is a very small interval. Similar changes include intervals such as 80:81, 32:27, 112:121, and 120:121. The last is a nearly inaudibla pitch change. There is a lot of movement at very small intervals, leading to the final chord progression, which has all five instruments playing a glissando in different directions on the six notes of the full chords.

The sound is lively and very much in the style of Darius Milhaud, whose woodwind quintet was one of my favorites to play in our college wind quintet. The instruments are flute, oboe, clarinet, french horn, and bassoon. There are a few very low notes beyond the range of the normal bassoon, but all the rest are in playable range.

The piece was made using Csound and the McGill University Master Sample Library. For more details on the techniques used, see my web site under Liner Notes at http://prodgers13.home.comcast.net