Fantasy on a Folk Song for Flute and Piano by Andrew Middleton Sheet Music for Flute and Piano at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Andrew Middleton

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Andrew Middleton

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 18

Arrangement Flute and Piano

Publisher Andrew Middleton

Level 5

Product ID 832330

Genre Folk Contemporary

Instruments Flute Piano

Product Description

This fantasy for flute and piano is based on a Theme and Variation. However, unlike a traditional theme and variation, the theme used here, (which is based on a folk song "The Cliffs of Old Tynemouth" from the North East of England), is heard in its entirety at the very end of the piece. As each variation is heard more and more of the original melody is revealed and subsequently disguised until the final section of the music when the melody can be heard. The piece is rather like a musical metaphor for the eroding of the cliffs by the sea; as the constant ebb and flow of the sea (represented by the constant piano accompaniment) erodes the rock, the hidden secrets of the melody become more and more exposed until the melody is revealed.

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