Hymntunes IX: Foster from Missouri Harmony for alto flute and piano (2011).
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In the nineteenth century, churches in individual states created and published their own unique hymnals. These hymnals contain may beautiful, little known hymntunes. One such melody is Foster from Missouri Harmony. This melody rises in a kind of musical scale before falling back down again. This suggested to me a musical texture. The texture has the rising scale played many times, overlapping, with slightly different rhythms, in a cacophony of imitation. For contrast, I decided to follow this musical texture with a fugue. Because all of the repeated scales in the earlier section employed techniques borrowed from minimalism, I used minimalist techniques in the fugue as well.
 

Hymntunes IX, (excerpt).