Thick Line was originally written for a trio, but it can be performed by any group of wind or brass instruments. All the musicians read from the same score, which specifies rhythms, dynamics, contours and character markings, but not pitches. Each note thus blurs into a rich harmony, and those rich harmonies move up and down in parallel, as if the piece’s melodic line were drawn with a thick piece of charcoal rather than a fine-tipped pencil.

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