Victoria Bond
Scat (Ii)
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments
Instruments: any brass, any female voice, any high voice, any voice, soprano, trumpet
Publisher: Subito Music Corporation
Description: Prem: 1/23/85; Chapel Concert Series, NYC
An improvisation in which the singer sings nonsense syllables as text, and the musical material is exchanged and varied as in a jam session. “Patterned after Bond’s idea of Ella Fitzgerald, the performers let their hair down and sent us back into the cold night with a smile and the feeling that the trip had been well worthwhile.” The Prospect Press