The duration of Burwood Park is 6 minutes. All fingerings for the multiphonics and colour trills and other contemporary playing techniques are clearly shown on the score. This video is meant to accompany a post on my site, talking about the percussive sounds available to flutists. You can activate or mute it with the global hot key combination Control-Alt-Command-T.
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A free and growing library of new sounds is available. You can replace the typewriter sounds by any of your own sounds. Whistle tone and singing techniques produce a range of soft harmonic effects to end the work.īurwood Park features a range of extended techniques including bend, vibrato, flutter- tonguing, tongue-ram, air and key click articulation, jet whistle, whistle tone, singing, colour trill and multiphonic effects. It plays typewriter sounds when you press your keyboard keys. A tranquil and meditative atmosphere should be conveyed to represent the Tai Chi dancers in the park their slow dance movements moving along to the peaceful music.
The final section is based on a pentatonic scale to imitate the Asian music typical of Tai Chi. The most common of these is the key-click, pioneered by Edgard Varse in his famous work for. This is a very loud, fast, exciting and virtuosic passage which showcases the technical ability of the flautist. The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. A quirky, rhythmic, birdcall motif emerges, gradually transforming into a scene of angry chess players.
Programmatically, Burwood Park consists of five sections depicting the sounds of nature and people we come across as we walk through the park: birds and the wind in the trees, children singing and playing, chess players getting stressed and agitated, screaming and shouting at each other and Tai Chi dancing.īurwood Park begins in a slow, mysterious and improvisatory style. This piece is named after a park situated in a Western Sydney suburb. Burwood Park for solo flute was composed in 2008 for Brisbane-based flautist, Janet McKay, for a concert at the Queensland Art Gallery in South Bank.
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