 |
Sheet Music: Score & Part(s)SKY-STAINED WAVES : for flute and piano / Robert McIntyre.by Robert McIntyre (2023)
|
Product details
Watercolour is an often-translucent artform, which allows light to pass through layers of suspended pigment or colourants when staining. When commissioned by Debbie to compose a new flute work for her 60th Birthday, I wanted to blend something so innately her with my own compositional aesthetic. Debbie's watercolour paintings immediately came to mind, particularly her colloquially referenced artwork 'Rainy day in Queenscliff'.
SKY-STAINED WAVES encapsulates the beautifully nuanced blurred reflection that Debbie's watercolour portrays, tapping into its shades, textures, bleeding, and brushstrokes. The work's structure and substance take inspiration horizontally from left to right, where I constantly referred to the painting during the compositional process. This influenced a layering and blurring of notes, distinct use of pedalling, and the use of extended colour techniques on the flute.
As a close friend and colleague of Debbie, this commission is particularly meaningful to me. It is my hope that she can enter this soundworld and contemplatively get lost in the beautiful colours that she brings to those in her life.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score 10p. -- A4 (portrait)) and 1 part (2p. -- A4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced — AMEB Grade 8 or equivalent
Duration: 4 mins, 15 sec.
First performance by Nathalie Resciniti, Coady Green — 20 Oct 23. 13 Melrose Avenue, Malvern East, VIC
Includes program note.
Typeset edition.
ISMN: 979-0-72026-415-8
Related products
This work is also available in the following products:
Score & Part [ePDF]: SKY-STAINED WAVES : for flute and piano [eScore] / Robert McIntyre.
- Browse other works for Flute with piano
- Browse other works by Robert McIntyre
User reviews
Be the first to share your thoughts, opinions and insights about this item.
To post a comment please login