Nelly LiPuma
Sonate für Flöte und Klavier
Duration: 13'
Instrumentation details:
flute
piano
Sonate für Flöte und Klavier
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Work introduction
The work consists of two movements: Andante and Allegro.
The Andante, Matinée sur la mer, has a calm introduction.
The theme, presented by the flute starting from meas. 9, it's very classic.
The piano accompaniment purposely wants to create a base static and fluid at the same time.
In fact, the fourths of the right hand that go from the root to the third,
with a forth and back movement, always the same for 22 measures,
infuse the introduction with a character of contrasted stillness, in the left hand,
from the asymmetrical game between the fifths to the bass and "la nota a goccia",
the drop note, the B, eighth, which breaks the monotony of this calm,
giving the whole a character of fluidity, softness and changeability,
like the light movement of a board on the calm sea in the morning.
The central part, un po' piú camminato, a little faster, from meas. 33 to meas. 68,
is a rhythmic challenge for the players, with its constant metric changes and for the use of
compound odd meters, uncommon in Western Europe!
Once the calm of Tempo I ° returned, in meas. 69, the piano continues to search,
to wander and explore harmonies that overlap, creating contrapuntal lines of parallel and
distant harmonic worlds, while the bass, as a tonal compass, takes us back to the key of E major.
The movement ends with a major seventh chord whose dissonance is rendered
even stronger by the augmented eleventh, while the flute, with its C sharp,
the sixth (or thirteenth of the chord), leave this ending open,
concluding it with a calm tone, almost a conjunction that awaits the rest.