Five-page holograph concert score for a work for clarinet, French horn, saxophone, bass, and drums, found in Music Manuscript Notebook 5 (MMN5). The title is also included on a list in the notebook of circus-themed pieces.
Compositions A-E
Affairs of the Heart
Professionally copied parts for a piece for saxophone quartet with woodwind doubling (soprano saxophone, flute, alto flute, bass clarinet or English horn).
Found on: Revue.
Abstrac
Nineteen-page holograph score, ruled by hand, orchestrated for jazz big band (five woodwinds, three trumpets, French horn, trombone, tuba, cello, bass, and percussion), found in Music Manuscript Notebook 4 (MMN4).
From Marty Ehrlich: The composition moves between metered and non-metered sections. Hemphill has devised his own type of notation for sections that are non-metered. I would conjecture that this is one of Hemphill’s earliest compositions for jazz orchestra.
About Itself
The archive includes guitar and cello parts, not in Hemphill’s hand, to a fourteen-measure composition by this title, with a two-bar vamp in mm. 13–14.