Daniel Arnold (Composer)
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Four Bagatelles (2010)

I. Small Pond
II. Big Fish
III. Big Pond
IV. Small Fish

Each bagatelle’s title is a reference to the saying “big fish in a small pond” and its implied opposite “small fish in a big pond.” The movements reflect the feelings one might associate with the metaphors. Each bagatelle has a different primary focal instrument, and the other instruments generally accompany the melody using different simultaneous meters. “Small Fish” begins as a canon before the viola takes its melody. 

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