Solos - Florence Anna Maunders - Composer

Florence Anna Maunders - Take Back - Solo Bass (or Contrabass) Recorder

The title can refer to the idea of regretting doing or saying something, and wanting to take it back, to undo what has occurred, to reset and begin again. The phrase can also reference the concept of reclaiming or taking back something that was once possessed and should now be returned to our possession, for example the idea of taking back the streets or taking back power. In this exciting and compressed composition for solo recorder, the music continually takes phrases back into circulation from earlier parts of the piece, transforming them each time, as if reclaiming or recycling the material and bending it to a new purpose.<br><br>The download includes a complete score with programme and performance notes. Please contact the composer ahead of any public performance of this piece for permissions.

Florence Anna Maunders - Black Ants/Red Ants - Solo Bass Flute

This 5-6 minute long piece was written for the flautist Ruth Morley, who gave the first performance. <br><br>The download includes a full score, full permission to perform in concert and permission to record for non-commercial uses.<br><br>In this piece two very contrasting types of music are allowed to collide. As the piece progresses, the "spiky music" becomes more condensed and frantic, while the "lyrical music" is allowed more and more space and freedom. You can imagine this as a musical depiction of a "battle for survival" between two different colonies of ants.<br><br>

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