This expressive one-movement piece, commissioned by Trio Arundel in Delaware, is filled with images of moving water. Its germinal idea had its origin in the magic fountain music of Marshall's opera Melete's Quest. In the cascading lines that follow a rushing, upward scale, the music flows both up and down, crossing as waves from different directions amplify each other. The water imagery gives a flowing consistency to the piece, even as the textures and mood change.

The music is sometimes rhythmically complex with the goal of creating expressive phrases without a strict pulse. Note groups of 3 and 5 create a notated rubato for semi-independent melodies that remain coordinated so that larger phrases evolve together.

Comments about Waves and Fountains by Verne Reynolds - Professor Emeritus, Eastman School of Music:

“I admire, especially, her firm grip on her own harmonic language as well as the wide variety of vision for each instrument. It's all very solid music with fine spirit and details. Wow!!”

Duration 8 minutes