Woodwind - Florence Anna Maunders - Composer

Florence Anna Maunders - Galactic Hallucination - Flute, Bb Clarinet & Bassoon

This piece was commissioned by The Arc Project as part of a collaboration with artist Desmond Clarke. The music is inspired by his artwork. The sounds of the flute, clarinet & bassoon create intricate, repetitive, but disintegrating structures, floating in space, focusing on a central point, and then dissolving into a new form. The music is full of post-minimalist micro-variation and explores the act of creation through a focus on extended woodwind techniques. This is a challenging, but approachable piece for advanced players with a duration of ca. 11 minutes, which is a good introduction to some contemporary performance techniques.<br><br>The download includes a complete score and set of parts with program and performance notes. Additionally, when purchasing this score you will also receive full performance rights for this piece, and the right to record for personal, competition, reference or other non-commercial uses.

Florence Anna Maunders - Desert Places - Solo Bass Flute

This 5-6 minute long piece was written for the flautist Carla Rees, who gave the first performance. <br><br>The download includes a full score, programme notes, a multiphonics guide, full permission to perform in concert and permission to record for non-commercial uses.<br><br>It explores two of my great compositional obsessions – jazz harmony and the traditional music of the Middle East – particularly Persian music. The two main types of musical material in this piece are the meditative aalap sections in unmeasured time, which form a series of “musical breaths”, which alternate with some more rhythmical (perhaps even slightly percussive) passages which develop the 10/8 rhythm of the janiman – probably the least common of the traditional Persian dance rhythms. In the slower sections much of the melodic material borrows from the closely related Arabic tradition, in particular the tuning of the maqam hijaz, but also explores the versatility of the bass flute in creating multiphonics which match closely the idiosyncratic tuning of this scale. The more groove-based sections sound distinctly funky in places, with 9th-based harmonic patterns and semiquaver syncopations abounding.

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>

Florence Anna Maunders - Galactic Hallucination - Flute, Oboe & Bb Clarinet

This piece was commissioned by The Arc Project as part of a collaboration with artist Desmond Clarke. The music is inspired by his artwork. The sounds of the flute, oboe and clarinet create intricate, repetitive, but disintegrating structures, floating in space, focusing on a central point, and then dissolving into a new form. The music is full of post-minimalist micro-variation and explores the act of creation through a focus on extended woodwind techniques. This is a challenging, but approachable piece for advanced players with a duration of ca. 11 minutes, which is a good introduction to some contemporary performance techniques.<br><br>The download includes a complete score and set of parts with program and performance notes. Additionally, when purchasing this score you will also receive full performance rights for this piece, and the right to record for personal, competition, reference or other non-commercial uses.

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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