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| Title | Prelude 3: for Flute |
| Contributors |
Edward McGuire (composer) |
| Composition date | 1985 1985 |
| Duration (mins) | 4 |
| Category | instrumental |
| Instrumentation | Fl |
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| First performed | 17 04 1986 David Davies Concert Hall, Glasgow University |
| Notes | Dedicated to David Nicholson. |
| Programme Note | This prelude is part of a set of 24 preludes for various instruments which enabled me to learn about and explore their soul and write for them idiomatically. I began with a cello prelude in 1975 and completed the set in 2015. It was in 1965 and 1966 that I studied flute at the RSAMD Junior Department with David Nicholson and I dedicated this piece to him when I completed it in 1985. It follows one of my favourite forms - starting growing like a seed at the beginning, flowering and decaying at the end: an organic development. Midway there is a brief sense of dance and various emotions. But in the main it is a concise, energetic piece with the unusual features of harmonics at the start and a short burst of multiphonics and glissandos as the music fades. I see it fitting in to the French tradition of short flute solos by composers such as Debussy, Honneger and Varese. Edward McGuire October 2015 |
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