Victoria Bond
Cornography
Year: 1970
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;20'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any brass, any female voice, any high voice, any voice, any woodwind, bassoon, horn, soprano
Publisher: Subito Music Corporation
Description: Text: Victoria BondPrem: 10/25/70; LA Natural History Museum
I. Recitative II. Aria Obnoxious III. Buffoonery IV. Cornography V.Finale
In this humorous work, the soprano sings about the nature of the horn and the bassoon, and displays her own virtuosity in an unaccompanied display, whose only text is the word “aria.”