"These four tunes [Blito-Slip-Jig, Measured Rain, Resting on a Stair, Anucar] are written as virtual folk music. They are written as though they were native idioms from imaginary cultures, borrowing from Irish, Bulgarian, Latin American and North American musical styles. I mean for them to be played as if the performing musicians were in a band together and had grown up listening to this type of music, and could improvise and embellish in the style of these tunes. The tunes' rhythmic frameworks are pulse-oriented, and should feel intuitive. The original tunes, written as to appear in a songbook, are included at the end of this document"--From abstract.
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