Clarion Arabesque, for trumpet in c, is a simple trumpet call whose line is bent, hammered, and stretched into an extended ornament. The shifting moods of the piece are described by words in the score ("calling," "insistent," "distracted," "disconsolate," "defiant," "singing," "restless," and so on) that are meant to clarify and amplify the meaning of the musical ideas they accompany (they should not be spoken or acted out by the performer). In 1902 Debssy wrote that J.S. Bach "preferred the free play of sonorities whose curves, whether parallel or contrary, prepared the unhoped-for flowering that decorates even the least of his many notebooks with an imperishable beauty. This was the epoch when the 'adorable arabesque' flourished." This piece proposes that epoch is not yet entirely abated.