Product Description
This hauntingly beautiful song is an instrumental version of the choral work "Autumn Days" which is based on the poetry of Helen Hunt Jackson. Arranged for easy/early intermediate flute and piano, it is perfect for late summer/fall concerts and recitals or Thanksgiving. The arrangement starts off very simply, but increases in complexity and difficulty, culminating in a lovely counterpoint by the flute. A rehearsal/performance track of the piano part for this duet is also available to purchase on Sheet Music Plus.
October
Bending above the spicy woods which blaze,
Arch skies so blue they flash, and hold the sun
Immeasurably far; the waters run
Too slow, so freighted are the river-ways
With gold of elms and birches from the maze
Of forests. Chestnuts, clicking one by one,
Escape from satin burs; her fringes done,
The gentian spreads them out in sunny days,
And, like late revelers at dawn, the chance
Of one sweet, mad, last hour, all things assail,
And conquering, flush and spin; while, to enhance
The spell, by sunset door, wrapped in a veil
Of red and purple mists, the summer, pale,
Steals back alone for one more song and dance.
November
This is the treacherous month when autumn days
With summers voice come bearing summers gifts.
Beguiled, the pale down-trodden aster lifts
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