Ballade Mistral

Composer Notes... Robert Byrnes (1949-2004) was the carillonneur for the University of Northern Iowa at Cedar Falls for over 30 years. He died in 2004 and Ballade Mistral is dedicated to him. It is written in the same overall style that Byrnes’s used in his own compositions. The middle section with rapid sixteenth notes played against a dominant bass line is a railing against death—much the same as Bob did when alive.