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Fantasia for Oboe and Piano : oboe with piano

by May Lyon (2025)

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Work Overview

Fantasia for Oboe and Piano is written for oboists Joshua Webster, inspired by his love of astronomy. During 2020 and 2021 Joshua spent a lot of time at home in New Zealand looking through his telescope at the stars, and in particular the planets Jupiter and Saturn. This inspired a semi narrative for the work. Starting in a leaping fashion, as if trying to escape gravity's pull, the piece moves to a slow-moving Earth melody before travelling to the grandeur of Jupiter, then finally spinning off into the depths of space.

The pitch material is all derived from the planets themselves.

Work Details

Year: 2025

Instrumentation: Oboe,piano

Duration: 7 min.

Difficulty: Advanced — full range of instrument, rhythmic complexity, atonal notation

Written for: Joshua Webster

Commission note: Commissioned by Members of the Australian National Academy of Music for performance by The ANAM Set with funds provided by Lee Family Foundation.

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

Astronomy, galaxy, planets, atonal, pitch-class set

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