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.