M. BADIAN: PROFILES for Trombone Solo

PROFILES for trombone solo was commissioned to Maya Badian by the International Competition for Young Performers, Vercelli, Italy, in 1978.
The title "Profiles" comes from the idea of the meaning of the word "Profile", allowing the performer to create distinctive shapes, outlines, contours, shadows - all of them giving birth to a complete range featuring specific "profiles" of the Trombone, arranged, each, in particular settings. In my composition Profiles, this is exemplified by the participation of the trombone’s inner logic in the building of the macro-structure of the whole musical form.
The melodic contours of all three movements
I. - FIRST PROFILE; II. - SECOND PROFILE; III. - THIRD PROFILE - are unified by the continued use of augmented fourths, sevenths, and semitones. The virtuosity requested of the
performer by this piece is entirely based on the trombone’s characteristics and sound.
Trombone: Sylvain Jacobs
Composer: Maya Badian
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