Morris: Four Personalities for Oboe and Piano

By American composer and oboist Alyssa Morris (b.1984). The title highlights the four movements in this work, all titled on the Hartman personality test. The four movements are: 

• Yellow: Yellow represents fun-loving. The joy that comes from doing something just for the sake of doing it is what motivates and drives yellow. 

• White; White represents peacekeeper. White is kind, adaptable, and a good listener. Though motivated by peace, white struggles with indecisiveness. 

• Blue: Blue represents great gifts of service, loyalty, sincerity, and thoughtfulness. Intimacy, creating relationships, and having purpose is what motivates and drives blue.

• Red: Motivated by power, red is aggressive and assertive. Red is visionary, confident and proactive.