Project Description
Composer’s Note
Flight of Fancy (for oboe & piano) comprises three sections, each lasting about a minute or so.
The first section kicks off in an energetic and cheerful way with the bright upper registers of both instruments at play. Also evident in the opening section are ideas such as angular melodic lines played in unison, a little harp-like piano accompaniment texture and a contrasting theme fashioned atop a jazzy, dance-inspired bassline.
The middle section of the work is perhaps the more unearthly music of the work. Little updrafts and whirlwinds of tinkling, glockenspiel-like piano figurations add a haunting quality to a chromatically inflected melody, evoking, for me, images of night and a kind of magic.
The final section of the piece – which brings us back to earth with its recapitulation of earlier material – is characterised by the sound of its ‘slow-to-start’, hand-cranked engine. – M.O.
Additional arrangements
Flight of Fancy
(for oboe & piano)
Scores & parts available from Reed Music!
TITLE:
Flight of Fancy
DATE OF COMPOSITION:
2006
SCORED FOR:
oboe & piano
DURATION:
c. 3 minutes
PUBLISHER:
reedmusic.com
ISMN:
979-0-720083-10-0 / Catalogue: RM421
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I look forward to hearing from you!