One for One

One for One

Black composer and musical director Edward Osmund Bland composed "One On One" for bassoon and clarinet. As David Schwartz recounts in his liner notes for the album Legacy: Black Composers on which the work appears, the work "display[s] a style of counterpoint where each voice is connected to the other by no specific meter. The repartee between the instruments seems to evoke the asymmetry of the rhythms basketball players' feet make when rushing up and down a court, according to the notes. The work for bassoon alone is a capricious one that depicts the instrument's many colors, from serious to sarcastic humorous."

Duration: 4 minutes

Bland, Edward (1926-2013)

Edward Osmund Bland (personal website, contact): https://www.edblandmusic.com/ContactInfo.htm

Edward Osmund Bland (Wikipedia), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bland

Legacy: Works for Bassoon by African-American Composers (One on One, for Bassoon & Clarinet), All Music, https://www.allmusic.com/performance/one-on-one-for-bassoon-clarinet-mq0001230167

Castle of our Skins Concert Series, "One on One - Ed Bland" (YouTube), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R19LQ0kYecA

[unknown, twentiety century]

0-10 minutes

1950-1999

bassoon / basson

clarinet / clarinette

duo