The Contemporary Solo Flute - Vols 1 & 2

The Contemporary Solo Flute - Vols 1 & 2

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solo flute
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Eleven Pieces for Flute Alone
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1 James Meyer         Elegy 1973
4 Willy Corrêa de Oliveira      Gesang des Abends 1973
6 Osvaldo Lacerda      Improviso 1974
9 Ma Shui-Long        Fantasie 1974, rev. 1985
16 Marilyn Bliss        Encounter 1975
18 David Loeb          Nocturnes and Meditations (on piccolo) 1975
22 Harry T. Bulow      Mutations 1976
26 John Mayer           Alaap and Kirtan 1977
31 Elbert Lechtman      Yesod 1979
34 George Barati      A Chant to Pele 1984
38 Paul Steinberg     Cadenza (on alto flute) 1985

Comments

These works for the advanced solo flutist, collected together by James J. Pellerite, were originally presented in two volumes and published by JP Zālo in 1979. They are now presented together in this 2022, single volume edition of The Contemporary Solo Flute.

These eleven pieces, composed in a relatively narrow band of time (1973-1985), nonetheless demonstrate a wide range of 20th Century flute and compositional techniques.

Extended techniques are present (percussive effects, multiphonics, microintervals, and similar), but are usually used for timbral or rhythmic enhancement rather than as motive ideas. The majority of the works adhere to idiomatic fingering and embouchure technique, and all of the works are attractively, musically suited for the flute and its musical tendencies.

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solo instrumental (non-keyboard)
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flute
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