Concert Piece: La Tricotea (2006) was written for and is dedicated to conductor and pianist
Jeffrey Grossman.
The work is a "concert paraphrase" in the tradition of the virtuoso piano literature. Thus it is not
a set of traditional variations but rather is a virtuosic elaboration of the source material &ndash, with
different parts of the piece focusing on and amplifying different elements of the original.
The source material is the anonymous Renaissance Spanish three-part choral motet La Tricotea.
In some sources, this motet is attributed to Francisco Alonso. It was originally published a
collection entitled Cancionero Musical del Palacio (c. 1490 &ndash, 1520). The text of the motet is
primarily in Spanish but includes both elements of other Romance languages and a great deal of
gibberish.