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| Title | Anguished Bouquets |
| Contributors |
Derek Ball (composer) |
| Composition date | 2008 |
| Duration (mins) | 3 |
| Category | chamber duet |
| Instrumentation | Fl Va |
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| Notes | to Rebecca Osborn |
| Programme Note | Florid Impressionism collides with angst-ridden Expressionism, or to put it another way, Debussy arm-wrestles Schoenberg. I started this piece intending it to be a gentle pastiche of a French Belle Époque still-life of flowers only to have it hijacked by a progressive serial system which then determined its whole structure in terms of tropes though not always in terms of note order, over which I was allowed some freedom by the stern Austrian! I wrote Anguished Bouquets for the violist Rebecca Osborn who tirelessly champions the cause of her lovely instrument. |
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