Solos - Florence Anna Maunders - Composer

Florence Anna Maunders - Finding The Way - Solo Guitar

I've been trying to find my way, in life, and as a composer, and this piece is something which came out of that process and experience. The music is really a series of gestures which repeat with small alterations, gradually exploring in one direction or another, turning back on themselves, or developing along new pathways. Gradually new ideas are formed from the fragments of previous motifs. One recurring feature throughout the piece is the tight and obsessive repetition of single pitches, and lines which closely circle around and return to those pitches. As the piece develops from the somewhat fragmented opening section, a sense of groove or rhythmic drive emerges, pushing forwards and upwards and leading eventually to a transfigured, ecstatic and energetic final series of flowing, flourishing gestures, like a flower bud finally opening to the sun.<br><br>Duration approx 6 minutes

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.

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