04 July 2011
Unaccompanied Flute Solo
A few nights ago, around mignight, an almost fully formed piece of music came into my mind (this doesn't happen to me very often!). Then I spent a bit of time writing this setting of a 19th-century Silesian folk tune (CRUSADER'S HYMN) for unaccompanied flute. I have written one other piece for unaccompanied flute, which is a medium that has attracted a number of composers through the years: J.S. Bach, Partita; Berio, Sequenza; Debussy, Syrinx; Cynthia Folio, Arca Sacra; Phillip Glass, Serenade; Jennifer Higdon, Song; Poulenc, Un Joueur de Flute Berce les Ruines; and many more... You can hear and see the piece here:
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I thought this was an interesting piece. I could hear the hymntune poking through which was nice. 6ths are also one of my favorite intervals so it was nice to see them. As I like to say, "it's 6's and 7's" ;) (6th intervals and 7th chords)
Also, I plan on attending PBU for composition in 2012 so I just thought I would send this note to you. I also have a web page if you'd like to check it out! just search for "unoriginalcomposer" on youtube and then you can probably find my page from there. We'll probably be in touch at some point!
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