Beaser, R :: Souvenirs
Beaser, R
Robert Beaser writes: Souvenirs, for piccolo and piano, was commissioned by the piccolo committee of the National Flute Association. I collected the ideas for Souvenirs' six movements over the course of the late '90s and finally composed the work in earnest during the summer and fall of 2001. From the outset of the process I understood that I wanted to write a work which continued in the path of my Mountain Songs for flute and guitar (1985)--one which explored folk elements reformatted in one way or another. In the earlier work I explicitly took extant and some- times well-known Appalachian tunes and processed them through reinvented harmonies, materials and architectures. Souvenirs comes from more disparate sources, including Mountain Songs itself (Cindy Redux being a piano version of Cindy). Three of the six songs are com- pletely original, two are based on folk tunes and one is an invented Trope on a Lorca transcription of a Spanish folk song (The Four Mules) -- discovered, lost and re-remembered.
Contents
- Happy
- Lily Monroe
- Y2K
- Spain
- Cindy
- Ground O
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