Blue Third Pieces for treble wind and guitar is a little homage to the interval of the third and its place in the blues. The first piece, Deep Blue, is quiet and lyrical, beginning with a chorale-like motive. Its melody emphasizes the blue third in its lower notes. The title of the second movement is taken from the 1945 jazz piece Salt Peanuts by Dizzy Gillespie and Kenny Clark, which feature the famous "salt peanuts" gesture consisting of a large leap back and forth in combination with a repeated, syncopated rhythm ("salt PEA-nuts, salt PEA-nuts"). This leap is usually that of an octave, although I have used the interval of a seventh (e.g., m. 31 and m. 51). An homage to Ray Charles, one of my musical heroes, is woven into the guitar writing of this movement beginning at m. 78.

All for GUITAR:

I. Deep Blue

m.13: add low E to chord, let it ring across the measure to downbeat of m.14

m.19: last note should be octave lower, tied to eighth downbeat of m.20

m.20: downbeat should be low A eighth note, not eighth rest

m.20: beat 1, top note should be E, not D

m.22: beat 1, top note should be G-natural, not G-flat

m.52: play middle-low A as harmonic

m.62: add low G-flat to chord

m.66: beats 4 and 5, let A ring through m.67

II. Salt Peanuts

m.26: last half beat 1, add low B-flat

first half beat 2, add low D

last half beat 2, add low C#

m.33: first half beat 1, add low A

last half beat 1, add low B-flat

first half beat 2, add low D

last half beat 2, add low C#

m.37: first half beat 1, add low A

last half beat 1, add low B-flat

first half beat 2, add low D

last half beat 2, add low C#

m.66-68: let low A ring

m.70: add breath indication at end of measure

m.95: change rhythm to quarter note chord, quarter rest, eighth note chord, eighth rest, quarter rest (second chord is on beat 3)

m.95: change notes in first chord to (reading up) EADG

change notes in second chord to (reading up) CFGBE

m.96: let beat one ring

m.113-117: Bartok pizz. on low E

m.119: chord the whole gesture