Chamber Music Flute, Harp
SKU: PR.164001780
For Flute and
Harp. Composed by Dan
Welcher. Classical. Set
of Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed Apr-86. Duration
7 minutes. Theodore
Presser Company
#164-00178. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.164001780).
UPC:
680160037056.
The
American imagist poet Amy
Lowell (1874-1925)
provided both the title
and the substance for
this brief descriptive
work in her poem Night
Clouds. I had been
commissioned by the
flute/harp duo Chaski to
write a piece that had a
different sound than most
flute and harp pieces.
The image of these
elusive beasts cavorting
through the night, before
the appearance of the
tiger sun, seemed to me
perfectly suited for the
flute and harp and would
give me the chance to
write a work for that
combination that did NOT
have overtones of nymphs
and shepherds. I wanted
to make much use of the
harp's more violent
sounds (beating the
strings and the
soundboard, for instance)
as well as its unusual
and idiomatic effects,
such as pedal glissandi.
For the flute, there are
jet-whistle effects,
extremes of register,
pitch-bending and other
decidedly non-pastoral
gestures. The work was
composed in 1986.
--Dan Welcher.
The Strings
