For B-flat clarinet, bassoon, and piano; 25 miniature variations (2001) 23:46

Sample tracks include silence between sections not written into the score.

This set of continuous variations for clarinet, bassoon, and piano is based on musical analogs for the grammatical and syntactical structures in a poem titled Autumn by Missouri author Elizabeth Jones Hanley. Preoccupied with the organization of sounds in spoken language and their counterparts in music, the composer allows word sound, syllable count, phrase lengths and vowel concentrations to generate parallel musical hierarchies and evolutions within the twenty-five sections of the composition. There is a continuous play on the rhythmic pattern produced by the stresses and releases within the poetic lines.

Five Movements for Soprano, B-flat Clarinet and Piano (1997), 16:20

Songs and Doubles begins with a simple setting for soprano and piano of Joanne Schweik's short poem The Harvest. The rhythmic and intervallic ideas within this brief composition give rise to songs based on poetry by Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson. The first two songs in the cycle are immediately followed by “Doubles”, an ornamented and developed form of variation based on similar practices in French music of the 17th and 18th centuries. These instrumental variations are scored for clarinet and piano. The final song contains instrumental interludes that function as internal “doubles” as well as a continuing clarinet obbligato decorating and commenting upon the vocal part.