Much of the sound-texture/open-form music composed during the last several decades has been intended for orchestra; Streets and Inroads tries to balance the scales, as it were, by providing materials for this type of music that are designed for bands, i.e., variously sized ensembles of winds and percussion instruments.

Many of the sounds called for in the piece are nontraditional: rattling of woodwind keys, playing of mouthpieces removed from instruments, unpitched glissandi, etc. Most of the...