Bassett wrote Sounds, Shapes, and Symbols in 1978 for the University of Michigan Symphony Band on a commission from its conductor, H. Robert Reynolds, who led the premiere performance on March 17. It was Bassett’s second piece for wind band,after 1964’s Designs, Images, and Textures. Sounds, Shapes, and Symbols is in four untitled movements, each of which creates a unique, non-melodic soundscape by juxtaposing distinctive sonorities and textures against each other.
- ISMN: 9790300729091 (M300729091)
