Prompts – Set II: Engines of January – Philip Schuessler

Prompts – Set II: Engines of January

Instrumentation: two-to-ten players

Duration: variable

Program note:

Prompts is a series of graphic scores that are designed to promote creative improvisation with minimal instructions or guidelines.

This second work in the series is a set of two images and poems. It is for any duration for two-to-ten of instruments of any type. The images and texts are prompts for improvisation.

The work may be performed as two separate movements or as a single movement. The two images may also performed individually (separately) or simultaneously in any arrangement.