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Selected
Compositions

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Mumblety
Peg (Children's Games)
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1994
Ludwig Music Company, Cleveland, OH
The Cumberland Quintet, Cookeville, TN |
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Jager
wrote Mumblety-Peg (Children's Games)
for the Cumberland Quintet in 1993. Each movement
is a musical description relating to everyday childrens
games. Fresh sounding as well as intellectual,
they employ many different compositional techniques
such as minimalish, an actual "tag", and a
Scottish snap. The last movement, "Musical
Chairs," provides theatrical possibilities as the
players leave the stage one by one. Finally, the
bassoonist is left alone to play a "victory"
cadenza. The other players sneak up and startle
him out of his musings with the final chord.
-from the liner
notes of "Shadows and Dreams"
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clip of Follow The Leader
from Mumblety Peg.
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the "save link" command)
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Recording: Shadows
and Dreams
Performed by: The
Cumberland Quintet
(Roger Martin, flute; William Woodworth,
oboe; Dan Hearn, clarinet; James Lotz, bassoon;
Arthur LaBar, horn) Recorded
May 6 and 7, 1996 at Wattenbarger Auditorium,
Tennessee Tech University.
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