Two Pieces of Flute Solo: Somber Flute 4'30",
Tweet Tweet Birds 2'00"
The score for these two flute solo pieces in PDF will be emailed to you within 24-48 hours upon receiving the amount of payment shown on the right. The "buy now" button on the left will bring you to a secured website where you can pay with PayPal or a major credit card such as VISA or Master card.
US$ 36.00
Somber Flute
This flute solo piece was inspired by a poem of the Tang Dynasty poet
Du Fu. Nostalgia was triggered by the sound of flute playing.
Just a few notes, thousands of homesick thoughts were elicited.
The composer shares the same feelings of homesickness from the
poem, and uses the modern flute to mimic the ancient flute.
To express the nostalgia fully, variations in the different pitch
ranges are developing with various performing techniques, such as
large vibrato, tremolo, voicing, portamento, etc. The English
translation of the original poem is as follows:
The wind carries flute music from hills under autumn moon.
Who is playing this fantastic but somber tune?
In sync with the melody the whispering wind is a boon.
How many mountain passes are illuminated by the moon?
The nostalgic music sent the Hu warriors back to the north.
The Wu-Ling tune reminiscences the campaign in the south.
The withering willows in the old yard are in poor health.
In these hard times, how could they sustain the growth?
Tweet Tweet Birds
This piece was inspired by the bird sounds. Different birds are
expressed with different tones of the flute. A variety of performing
techniques are used to mimic the bird's vocabularies: fast passages
for bird's singing, tremolo phrases for bird's group dialogues,
accidentals and staccatos for bird's chasing, and so on.
