flute quartet (1995)
flute 1: C flute only
flute 2: piccolo and C flute
flute 3: alto flute and C flute
flute 4: bass flute and C flute
Recorded by Flute Force on Eyewitness (Innova 556)
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duration: 8:00
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Travelogue is inspired by family trips from my childhood, sitting with my brothers in the back seat of our car, rolling through the Alabama countryside. We were exhilarated by the movement and the new scenery, anticipating our arrival, impatient with delays – and occasionally homesick. The flute language includes microtonal trills and progressions, wheezy overblown tremolos, and a Doppler effect of falling pitch (to imitate cars passing by in the other direction). The piece was written in New York City for my friends and colleagues in Flute Force, and was finished on Christmas Day, 1995. It is included on Flute Force’s Innova CD ‘eyewitness’.
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