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Stucky composed the concerto to feature the Los Angeles Philharmonic's principal flutists Janet Ferguson and Anne Diener Giles. In the score program notes, he wrote, "I was attracted not only by their superb artistry, but also by the appealing sonic possibilities of two flutes; most of the time in this concerto the soloists play together, forming a kind of super-flute that affords richer ...
Flutes use resonant pipes to make their sound, whereas pipes use vibrating reeds. The sounding mechanisms for the two types of instrument are different. Double flutes can be divided into instruments that consist of a melody pipe matched with a drone pipe, and chord flutes in which the instruments can play the same melody at the same time in two different pitches.
Allegro and Minuet for two flutes (1792) [1] Claude Debussy: Syrinx (1913) Arthur Honegger: Danse de la chèvre (1921) Felix Mendelssohn: The Shepherd’s Song in G minor for solo flute, R 24; Robert Muczynski: Three Preludes, Op. 18 (1962) Karlheinz Stockhausen: Amour (1981) Harmonien (2006) Tōru Takemitsu. Voice (1971) Georg Philipp Telemann:
The U.S Army Band performs a Christmas concert in 2010.. Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music regularly performed or heard around the Christmas season.Music associated with Christmas may be purely instrumental, or in the case of carols, may employ lyrics about the nativity of Jesus Christ, traditions such as gift-giving and merrymaking, cultural figures such as Santa Claus ...
Music for Flute, Strings, and Percussion – Flute Concerto; Otar Gordeli. Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, Op. 8; Charles T. Griffes. Poem for Flute and Orchestra (1918) Jorge Grundman. Concerto for Flute and String Orchestra. On the Back of a Nightingale, Op. 31 (2012) Slow Concerto for Flute and String Orchestra. A Promise to Frida, Op. 84 ...
Commissioned by the New York State Music Teachers Association [302] and the Music Teachers National Association. Premiered in 2009, by Katherine Ciesinsky, Bonita Boyd, and Nickolas Goluseswas at the Eastman School of Music. Inspired by Mayan poems. Movements: Invocation and prayer of the gods; For a dead child; To enchant the spindle
The piece lasts six to seven minutes, and is scored for two flutes, one or two piccolos, an optional two or three fifes, two oboes, two or three clarinets, two bassoons and contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets and a cornet, three trombones and tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum and cymbals, xylophone, 2 players on different pitches of ...
L'église Saint-Louis. Charpentier composed the Messe de minuit pour Noël c. 1694 for the Jesuit church of the Église Saint-Louis in Paris where he was music director. He upheld a longstanding tradition for this mass to be celebrated around midnight as the first of three on Christmas Day: to base the music on melodies of French noëls (Christmas carols).