3 movements:
I Maestoso
II Light and easy
III Moving right along
Clefs
Treble, bass
Meters
3/4, 5/4, 4/4
Key signatures
None
Range
Horn 1: g - a2
Horn 2: a - g2
Horn 3: B - f#2
Creator's Comments
Mr. Teuber is professor of Theory and Composition at the University of South Carolina, and was also instructor of horn when this piece was written. For the Dorn Horn Trio, he supplies the following succinct program notes:
“The trio is named after the bulding that houses that splinter group of our department known as the wind faculty. We are isolated from the main building by two blocks and some of us tend to “hang out” and read whatever ensembles we can get on. The Dorn Horn Trio was written because we ran out of trios.”
Performance Notes
The Dorn horn trio has three movements: the first one is a slow waltz (even though officially it goes by moderato) The 2nd movement is a play between on-beat and off-beat rhythmic figures, limited in range and melody, while the last one lives off its scale patterns and, again, syncopations. This is a varied trio, with movements that don’t follow the standard forms, and therefore provide an enrichment to the sparse trio literature available.