Values in 4 Parts aims to explore the vast potential of language and music and the relationships therein through the methods laid out by the French literary group the Oulipo (French acronym for “The Workshop of Potential Literature”). Values is a collection of voice and saxophone studies in language and expression, based on the principles set forth by Raymond Queneau and primarily employed by the French literary group the Oulipo. Each of the four movements of Values contains a poem or a fragment of text that has been manipulated by or interpreted with a certain Oulipian technique or principle. The technique is then translated into a musical process and paired with the text to create a set of self-contained studies in verbal and musical language.