Chamber Music Bass Flute 1, Bass Flute 2, Contrabass Flute, Flute 1, Flute 2, Fl...(+)
Chamber Music Bass Flute
1, Bass Flute 2,
Contrabass Flute, Flute
1, Flute 2, Flute 3,
Flute 4, Piccolo 1,
Piccolo 2, alto Flute 1,
alto Flute 2
SKU:
PR.114417700
For
Flute Orchestra.
Composed by Daniel Dorff.
Folder, .2inch white
spine. Premiered by the
Mid-Atlantic Flute
Convention festival flute
choir, conducted by
George Pope, Beston, VA.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 2015.
24+4+4+4+4+4+4+4+4+4+4+2+
2 pages. Duration 5
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41770.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114417700).
ISBN
9781491108000. UPC:
680160636259. 9x12
inches.
To mark its
50th anniversary, the
Flute Society of
Washington commissioned
Daniel Dorff to compose a
celebratory work for
large flute ensemble, to
premiere en masse at its
2016 convention. Dorff
responded with Fireworks,
a 5-minute dazzler scored
for 2 piccolos, 4 C
flutes, 2 altos, 2
basses, and 1 contrabass.
In describing performance
of Fireworks, Dorff says:
Real pyrotechnic
fireworks typically shoot
upward quickly and
neatly, pop at the top,
and then cascade downward
slowly in a beautifully
out-of-sync descent.
Fireworks has many
passages musically
depicting this crisp
upward whoosh exploding
into downward sprinkles,
often punctuated by a pop
at the
top.
PERFORMANCE
SUGGESTIONS1) FIREWORKS
may be performed by any
size ensemble ranging
from 11 soloists up to a
large festival choir. It
may be preferable to keep
the piccolos at one
player per part even when
the other parts have
multiple players.2) Real
pyrotechnic fireworks
typically shoot upward
quickly and neatly, pop
at the top, and then
cascade downward slowly
in a beautifully
out-of-sync descent.
FIREWORKS has many
passages musically
depicting this crisp
upward whoosh exploding
into downward sprinkles,
often punctuated by a pop
at the top.3) All
dynamics are relative to
the whole blend, and some
performance situations
may require attention and
adjustments to keep the
balance as notated.4) The
“puh†effect
with x-shaped noteheads
in the Bass and
Contrabass parts is a
beatbox technique
sounding similar to
pizzicato. There is
naturally-produced flute
pitch along with the
percussive attack.5)
“Like tolling
bells†(bar 191
onward) indicates a rapid
decay of each note, like
church bells.This will
help the antiphonal echo
beginning in bar 195, and
the seating placement may
also enhance the
antiphonal effect.