Flute, bass clarinet, piano SKU: OU.9780193564619
Composed by Michael Finnissy. Wind Ensemble/Concert Band. 32 pages. Duration 5'. Oxford University Press #9780193564619. Published by Oxford University Press (OU.9780193564619). ISBN 9780193564619. 12 x 8 inches.
For flute, bass clarinet, and piano. WAM is an investigation of Mozart - it uses hundreds of slightly altered fragments of, or parodies of, his music - and, instead of assembling them as he might if he were composing, allows them to float by rather as he might if he were daydreaming. Finnissy is making a point about the way we listen to music two hundred years after its composition - usually without a sense of the adventure of putting it together from scratch.
