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Memory

Digital Sheet Music [PDF]: Score

Memory : for flute solo and ensemble [eScore] / Jack Symonds.

by Jack Symonds (2021)

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  • Instrumentation: Solo flute (piccolo, flute, alto flute, bass flute), contrabass clarinet doubling clarinet in B flat, violin, cello, piano, percussion (xylophone, vibraphone, bass drum, tamtam, maracas, castanets, whip).
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This flute concerto burrows into the processes of remembering. How can music 'remember' - other people, other notes? The first movement is a decayed memory of the opening of Allan Pettersson's Thirteenth Symphony, a work of extreme instability and energetic violence seen from afar, after time has perhaps erased much of its anger - what is left?
The central movement creates a representation of 'Damnatio Memoriae' - a purging from society's collective memory, or a rewriting of history. A series of variations progressively have their musical 'identities' erased by a repeating gesture that attempts to extinguish the soloist - here cast as an antagonist to be purged from the landscape.
The final movement considers the Hapax - something that only occurs once in a work. Would we recognise and remember if it we heard it? Curlicues of bass flute melody infold themselves in a hall of mirrors where all events are reflected and repeated except one - the key to unlocking the piece.

Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 digital (PDF) facsimile score (61p. -- A4 (landscape))

Difficulty: Advanced — Advanced flute technique, microtones

Duration: 15 mins

Contents note:

I. Crippled hommage à A.P. ... a distanza -- II. Damnatio Memoriae -- III. Hapax.

Commissioned by Ensemble Offspring.

First performance by Ensemble Offspring at Ensemble Offspring: Shivers on Speed (Sydney Opera House, Utzon Room) on 28 Oct 2021

Includes program and performance notes.

The composer notes the following styles, genres, influences, etc in relation to this work:
microtonal, flute solos

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