A Short Trip for Three Flutes (Piano Arrangement)
By fc on February 12, 2012 12:28 pm
Unfortunately, what I hoped to be a wonderfully non-tonal short work for flute trio (which was rehearsed briefly by a sextet today) turned out to be a little bit too difficult to play accurately under the unrehearsed conditions, and similarly, a little too difficult to multitrack with my partner while sightreading it. So I did a piano reduction instead. I wrote the piece for my partner and some friends (all flautists) who were having a get together today. Took me about two hours to write once I had my material. Had to conduct it, was fun. Difficult ensemble piece though.
The idea of the piece is that it moves from a set of two trichords to another set of two trichords, and shifts register. Pretty simple. The first trichord set is [ E F# G# ] [ A B C# ], or two whole-tone collections separated by a semitone. The second set is [ F Gb G ] [ A A# B], two semitone collections separated by a whole tone. So in effect, they invert, allowing the use of almost all twelve tones. I also used transpositions of these collections.
/nerd stuff.
Anyway, oneday I'll record it and put it on Soundcloud, but for now... SIBELIUS PIANO SOUNDS!
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