Canfield: Five Mangled Expressions for Alto Saxophone and Horn

Code: JP5119ISMN: 979-0-3019-0022-2 Five Mangled Expressions for Alto Saxophone and Horn was written in eleven days between April 8, 2012 and the following May 6th. Saxophonist, Stacy Maugans, requested the instrumentation of the work, desiring to have music for her and one of her colleagues on the faculty at Valparaiso University. The title of the work was selected before a note of the work was written. Initially, Canfield was going to set several common English expressions, for example, 'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.' After reflection, he decided that it would be more fun to write a piece based on mangled expressions, all of which are humorous combinations of parts of two well-known expressions. There are a few jokes unrelated to the expressions during the course of the work, such as the not-so-subtle quote in both instruments of the famous horn solo that opens Strauss' Till Eulenspiegel and the 'silent' ending of the piece. The work comprises five short movements in