Score & Part [ePDF]
SKY-STAINED WAVES : for flute and piano [eScore] / Robert McIntyre.
Score & Part
SKY-STAINED WAVES : for flute and piano / Robert McIntyre.
Library shelf no. 788.32/MCI 2 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
Watercolour is an often-translucent artform, which allows light to pass through layers of suspended pigment or colourants when staining. When commissioned by Debbie to compose a new flute work for her 60th Birthday, I wanted to blend something so innately her with my own compositional aesthetic. Debbie's watercolour paintings immediately came to mind, particularly her colloquially referenced artwork 'Rainy day in Queenscliff'.
SKY-STAINED WAVES encapsulates the beautifully nuanced blurred reflection that Debbie's watercolour portrays, tapping into its shades, textures, bleeding, and brushstrokes. The work's structure and substance take inspiration horizontally from left to right, where I constantly referred to the painting during the compositional process. This influenced a layering and blurring of notes, distinct use of pedalling, and the use of extended colour techniques on the flute.
As a close friend and colleague of Debbie, this commission is particularly meaningful to me. It is my hope that she can enter this soundworld and contemplatively get lost in the beautiful colours that she brings to those in her life.
Work Details
Year: 2023
Instrumentation: Flute, piano.
Duration: 5 min.
Difficulty: Advanced — AMEB Grade 8 or equivalent
Commission note: This work was generously commissioned by, written for and dedicated to Debbie Brady in honour of her 60th Birthday.
First performance: by Nathalie Resciniti, Coady Green — 20 Oct 23. 13 Melrose Avenue, Malvern East, VIC
Performances of this work
29 Jun 24: Tempo Rubato, 34 Breese St, Brunswick VIC 3056. Featuring Aether Duo.
11 Feb 24: Saint John's In The Village, 218, W 11th St, New York, NY, 10014, United States. Featuring Simone Maurer, Jeremy Chan.
27 Jan 24: Fleming Auditorium, University of Southern Mississippi (Gulf Park Campus), 730 East Beach Blvd, Long Beach, MS 39560. Featuring Simone Maurer, Zhaolei Xie.
20 Oct 23: 13 Melrose Avenue, Malvern East, VIC. Featuring Nathalie Resciniti, Coady Green.
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