About the Work

Muncie Mix (2018) was commissioned by and composed for "Violet", a duo comprised of Elizabeth Crawford, clarinet, and Katrin Meidell, viola. The single-movement piece provides each player with relatively equal technical challenges within a tight-knit dialogue.

Quoting from a review of the work in the Fall 2024 NACWPI Journal, "Muncie Mix could be described as a dialogue between the two instruments. The piece begins relatively slow and soft with the viola, and the clarinet quickly comes in equally smooth. The two instruments blend tonally with a few rhythmic interjections. The piece becomes more complicated rhythmically, but usually in an exchange, as if a conversation is happening between the two instruments. There are several meter and tempo changes throughout this piece. For most of the piece, the instruments play solo or exchange until the ending, where the piece abruptly finishes loudly with three patterns of 16th notes, triplets, and a quintuplet to the close. A more advanced student ensemble or professional duo could handle this short duet. Muncie Mix is a welcome addition to the string and clarinet repertoire."

Duo score: 8 pages, spiral bound.

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About the Composer

Daniel Adams (b. 1956, Miami, FL) is a Professor of Music at Texas Southern University in Houston where he has served on the taught courses in music theory and composition since 1988. Adams holds a Doctor of Musical Arts (1985) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Master of Music from the University of Miami (1981) and a Bachelor of Music from Louisiana State University (1978). He is the composer of numerous published musical compositions and the author of many articles and reviews on various topics related to Twentieth Century percussion music, musical pedagogy, and the music of Texas. His book entitled The Solo Snare Drum was published by Honey Rock in 2000. He is also the author of two entries published in 2009 in the Oxford Encyclopedia of African-American History 1896 to the Present and has authored a revision of the Miami, Florida entry for the New Grove Dictionary of American Music (2013). Adams has served as a panelist and lecturer nationally and internationally, on topics ranging from music composition pedagogy to faculty governance. In 2011 he presented a composition Master Class at Ewha University in Seoul, South Korea. His music has been performed throughout the United States, and in Spain, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Turkey, Costa Rica, Argentina, Canada, and South Korea. His music is recorded on Capstone, Ravello, Summit, Albany, and Potenza Records.