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Example 3.2: Comparison of Quartet: She Wrote and Over, Easy
b. Over, Easy, First mvt., mm. 9-20
This is an extreme example of the composer quoting herself. In Blue Third Pieces55
(2000) for flute (or В-flat clarinet) and guitar Larsen uses a short motive throughout the
55 Larsen introduces this piece as an exploration of the third and its harmonic and melodic
place in the blues.
(http://libbylarsen.com/index.php?contentID=242&profileID=1241&startRange=) Inthe
second movement of Blue Third Pieces titled Salt Peanuts, Larsen deliberately
incorporates the rhythm of the famous “salt PEA-nuts, salt PEA-nuts,” gesture from
Dizzy Gillespie’s bebop composition of the same name.