Through the Clouds
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This is my soft and gentle, slow-moving meditational piece for two flutes and piano (or backing track).
It also works fine with just one flute, rather than two.
It begins with a arpeggio-type flowing accompaniment, which continues throughout the piece, as the melody weaves in and out, ebbing and flowing, above the constantly evolving harmonies..
...so when you hear it, it's rather like you are floating, well, through the clouds...!
It also works fine with just one flute, rather than two.
It begins with a arpeggio-type flowing accompaniment, which continues throughout the piece, as the melody weaves in and out, ebbing and flowing, above the constantly evolving harmonies..
...so when you hear it, it's rather like you are floating, well, through the clouds...!
Floating away
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Fresh ideas in flute music
Listen to "Through the Clouds":
Percy Bysshe SHELLEY
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
In their noonday dreams.
From my wings are shaken the dews that waken
The sweet buds every one,
When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,
As she dances about the sun.
I wield the flail of the lashing hail,
And whiten the green plains under,
And then again I dissolve it in rain,
And laugh as I pass in thunder.
I sift the snow on the mountains below,
And their great pines groan aghast;
And all the night 'tis my pillow white,
While I sleep in the arms of the blast.
Sublime on the towers of my skiey bowers,
Lightning my pilot sits;
In a cavern under is fettered the thunder,
It struggles and howls at fits;
Over earth and ocean, with gentle motion,
This pilot is guiding me,
Lured by the love of the genii that move
In the depths of the purple sea;
Get lost in time and space....
The flute parts increase in difficulty as the music progresses
Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills,Over the lakes and the plains,
Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream,
The Spirit he loves remains;
And I all the while bask in Heaven's blue smile,
Whilst he is dissolving in rains.
To download the flute and piano score,
or
2 flutes and piano (or backing track).
Score and flute parts in one download:
$6 (£5.49)
18 pages.
