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Digital Sheet Music [PDF]: ScoreRed Flute Piece : [eScore] / Connor D'Netto.by Connor D'Netto (2025)
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I find myself left with the most interesting cuttings when writing - the fragments of material pruned from piece at hand, to be carefully grafted into another work, or taking root as a piece of their own. I have a folder on my laptop full of these cuttings; this piece grew from one of them.
In my recent piece "On Seeing Red", I was working with a text by British writer, filmmaker, and artist Derek Jarman, an excerpt from the chapter of the same name from his final book "Chroma". In amongst a passage weaving aphorisms that reference the colour red together with Derek's various opinions on the feel of that colour is the phrase "Red filled the intervals between the musical notes, was a rousing anthem, 'Onward Christian Soldiers' and 'The Internationale'." It references two pieces of music, the first a 19th-century English hymn, the second a 19th-century French song adopted as the international anthem of various anarchist, communist and socialist movements. So, in the early stages of working on that commission, I sought out the earliest versions I could find to see if there was anything interesting that might take root as inspiration. 'Onward Christian Soldiers' didn't have much, just a couple of nice chord voicings, 'The Internationale' had more to work with.
I started playing around with it, stretching out and blurring its chords, creating slow shifting clouds that held you suspended in each passing harmony, magnifying each shift and change. From there I tried to condense this many-layered texture down to one voice, a single instrument set in acrobatics to span its range and cover each of the notes, initially thinking this would become the flute part of a passage I was working on. The material of "Red Flute Piece" was the result.
In the end, the material in this guise was pruned from the piece it was originally intended (for that setting it was a little too floral, too active, too busy) instead using fragments as repeated motifs or expanded and spread across the ensemble as a bubbling texture. In "Red Flute Piece" that initial idea is left intact, grown into a piece of its own, an etude of sorts that, despite its title, may be played by any solo wind instrument.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 digital (PDF) facsimile score (8p. -- A4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 2 mins
Includes program and performance notes.
Typeset edition.
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