Medieval Castle for solo flute (Anna Hurina) PRINTED
This is a 3.5 minute work for an Early Advanced Level that introduces the extended technique of frullato (flutter-tongue).
Hurina describes that the inspiration of the work is “based on the alliterative poem 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' of unknown authorship from the 14th century, which is dedicated to the adventures of Sir Gawain and King Arthur. It reflects the spirit of chivalry and faithfulness to one's word, overcoming trials that stand in your way. To be honest, these ideas strongly resonate with today's realities, where our heroes on the battlefield exhibit this spirit of chivalry, loyalty to the country, and the struggle for freedom. I hope that listeners will feel everything I wanted to convey with this composition and discover new meanings in my work.” Musically, the work has a dotted rhythm that comes back throughout the piece to tie together different interludes like a recitative wandering around but always returning to its main point. In the opening the work begins with a dotted quarter note followed by an eighth note in descending minor third interval followed by rests. Like one word that sings into silence creating anticipation. This gets transformed into a dotted eighth followed by two thirty-second notes as the phrase elongates into a full statement. This opening section continues becoming more virtuosic and insistent through the incorporation of arpeggiation and accents into the phrase. Eventually the opening motif returns now with a trill on the first statement and the second statement being intervallically expanded. The piece climaxes into a fortissimo frullato long note through a sequential passage of the dotted motif now transformed into a dotted eighth followed by a sixteenth note. The work closes with an incorporation of the various ideas from earlier now recombined that is interrupted with one final attempt of the opening motif that is now successful in creating a two measure unit of them utilizing the intervals emphasized earlier in the work. The final phrase returns to a wandering arpeggiation that leads into the second variation of the motif to conclude the work.
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