Sheet Music: Score
Flying colours : for band / Matthew Orlovich
by Matthew Orlovich (2010)
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- Instrumentation: Band.
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Audio Sample
Performance by Lamorna Nightingale, Jocelyn Fazzone from the CD Eat chocolate and cry
(this sample is of the flute with piano version of this work)
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Product details
This piece, a flight of fancy, 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 piece is perhaps the most 'unearthly'
of all the music. 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 a slow-to-start, hand-cranked engine.
Published by: Reed Music [RM666] — 1 score
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 12 min.
Typeset edition.
ISMN: 979-0-720100-95-1
Related products
This work also exists as the following versions:
- Oboe with piano
- Saxophone with piano
- Clarinet with piano
- Flute with piano
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