Product Description
for Flute Choir
A Song of Winter-Snowmen & Icicles
by Phyllis Avidan Louke
Evocative of a cold and windy day in winter, A Song of Winter explores the contrasts between the smoothness and roundness of a snowman and the hardness and jaggedness of icicles.
Beginning with a winter storm with wind and swirling snow, the wind calms, and the building of a snowman begins with the rolling of a snowball.
The rolling forms the biggest ball of the snowman (represented by the bass and alto flutes), which is briefly interrupted by a playful snowball fight. The flutes continue the melody
for the rolling of the second ball of the snowman, followed by the piccolo representing the rolling of the smallest ball (the head of the snowman). The melody is smooth and round in a lilting I time.
With the snowman complete, the wind and swirling snow return to lead into the Icicles section. The jaggedness of the icicles is represented by the jaggedness of syncopation in a marcato style with the melody skipping larger intervals than the Snowmen melody. Visually, the score shows the jagged shape of the icicles. Double-tongued ascending and descending lines, add to hard and brittle feeling of the icicles, as well as to the shape of the melody. The piccolo adds the glistening, shimmering effect of sunlight reflecting off the icicles. Eventually, fragments of the Snowmenmelody are interspersed with the Icicles, followed by a final wind storm, which calms at the end of the piece.
Christmas
Winter
Winter Holidays
Stormy
Concert
Original Composition
Phyllis Avidan Louke (b. 1954), a member of ASCAP, is Music Director of Rose City Flute Choir, and principal flute with Oregon Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra
and Oregon Symphonic Band. She adjudicates, maintains a private studio, and freelances in Portland, Oregon. She performed with the NFA Professional Flute Choir in 1993-2010, with the National Flute Choir on their ten ALRY Publications recordings, as well as on the 1997-2011 International Flute Orchestra tours to Europe, Asia, and South America. Ms. Louke has been arranging and composing for flute ensembles since 1990. Her original compositions include:
Extended Techniques-Double the Fun for two flutes,
Extended Techniques-Solos for Fun.
Compositions for flute and piano include
Echoes in the Wind-A Native American Soliloquy, Castle in the Mist and
Big Sky for alto flute and piano,
Blessings & Celebration for bass flute and piano, and
Reflections of Water for flute and piano. Flute choir compositions include
Suite Butterfly for Flute Quartet or Flute Choir (also on the National Flute Choir recording
High Altitude),
Une Chanson du Printemps,
Shadowlands, Under the Big Top, Echoes in the Wind, Cloud Images, A New Beginning, As Eagles Flew, Flute Fiesta, Temple of Heaven and the award winning
Of Wizards and Witches. She is also the co-author of
Flute 101: Mastering the Basics, Flute 102: Mastering the Basics, Flute 103: Mastering the Bassics and
The Flute Scale Book: A Path to Artistry with Patricia George.
More information on the music of Phyllis Avidan Louke can be found at www.phyllislouke.com and www.fabulousflute.com.
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