Anna Lindemann | music
Non Sequitor Ensemble | chamber ensembleInstrumentation | flute, clarinet, percussion, violin, cello, piano
Premiere | July 2002, The Walden School, Dublin, NH
Awards | 2003 ASCAP Morton S. Gould Young Composers Competition Award
Goat Herd depicts the journey of a herd of goats that wander willy nilly and encounter daunting obstacles — a precipice and a stream. An old goat, depicted by a lyric cello line, gives advice ignored by the rest of the herd and a frisky youngster, depicted by the florid clarinet scales, runs ahead of the others. The piece explores six motifs. The motifs recur as a groove in which all the motifs are both played simultaneously by the entire ensemble and also explored as individual melodic lines through solos and duets drawn from within the ensemble. These motivic developments are juxtaposed with textural, chordal passages.