Chamber Music Flute 1, Flute 2, Flute 3, Flute 4, Flute 5, Piccolo 1, Piccolo 2,...(+)
Chamber Music Flute 1,
Flute 2, Flute 3, Flute
4, Flute 5, Piccolo 1,
Piccolo 2, Piccolo 3,
Piccolo 4, Piccolo 5
SKU: PR.114419390
For Five Flutes
(doubling Piccolos).
Composed by Martin Amlin.
Sws. Set of Score and
Parts. 24+8+8+8+8+8
pages. Duration 10
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41939.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114419390).
ISBN
9781491130858. UPC:
680160677139. 9 x 12
inches.
Martin
Amlin’s new tour
de force is a quintet
composed for Leone Buyse.
It is a study in textures
and canonic gestures
scored for 5 C Flutes,
each doubling Piccolo. As
with his rhythmic
writing, Amlin’s
movement titles are
engagingly cryptic yet
meaningful: 1. Apparatus,
2. Mirémi, 3. Spiral
Canon. Ideal for advanced
and professional
flutists, the
work’s intricacies
create an exhilarating
ten minutes.
THREE
INVENTIONS was premiered
at Boston University on
April 14, 2019 by
flutists/piccoloists
Matthew Lee, Jessie Wang,
Courtney Regester,
Pauline Jung, and Alyssa
Primeau. The piece is
dedicated to the
composer’s
longtime friend Leone
Buyse.Apparatus is a
little musical machine
whose engine is driven by
the interval of a perfect
fifth. Fifths combine
with each other in
increasingly larger
intervals in a repetitive
pattern that appears at
higher pitch levels with
each iteration.Mirémi
is constructed loosely on
an ostinato consisting of
the notes D and E. The
two notes are passed back
and forth among the
instruments, combining
with symmetrical patterns
of faster notes.Spiral
Canon is a continuous
canon throughout among
the five instruments. It
not only spirals upward
in register, but is also
constantly
“modulating,â€
spiraling twice through
the entire circle of
fifths.— Martin
Amlin.