Soundscapes for Oboe and Strings is not programmatic, but several movements have loose relationships to moods and/or scenes. For example, Pastoral may be a quiet, dignified, and unassuming processional. Solo e Pensoso, on the other hand, is intense–four minutes-twelve seconds of solitary confinement in a brooding mind; there is no let up. Chase, Quiet opens with a five-voice fugue on a quirky and chromatic subject with twentieth century harmonies. Its development calls for considerable oboe technical prowess before coming to the final statement of the subject and a transition into Soundscapes' quiet and reflective ending.