Traces (1990)
for
Flute and Piano

by
Robert Morris

Program Notes

This composition was commissioned in 1990 as a contest piece by the National Flute Association. As the title suggests, the piece moves forward by tracing and retracing various melodic lines in the piano by the flute and vice-versa, until the musical texture evolves into intricate contrapuntal and heterophonic webs of sound.