Three Little Waltzes (Flute and Clarinet)
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Three Little Waltzes (Flute and Clarinet) by Daniel Dorff, Published by Tenuto Publications, Distributed by Theodore Presser Company.
The first and third of the Three Little Waltzes are short pieces (less than a minute each) using much earlier Dorff works as a basis, wrapped around a five-minute 2nd movement. The central section weaves fragments in and out again, teasing but not revealing the full theme until the grand finale.
Three Little Waltzes is included in the Shannon Scott/Leonard Garrison recording Perennials (Albany TROY1404). For advanced performers.
PROGRAM NOTES
THREE LITTLE WALTZES is a quirky set of surprises composed for flutist Cindy Anne Broz. The first and third waltz are each shorter than a minute and serve as a prelude and postlude for the large middle movement which is over 5 minutes.
Freshly composed in 2010, the 1st and 3rd movements are freely based on rhythmically-challenging waltzes that I wrote in high school (1974), frequently teasing between a waltz-like accompaniment and various ways of contradicting any sense of regularity, thereby providing a happy sense of arrival whenever the rhythms get back in sync.
The second movement is a sort of backwards-constructed set of variations, in which fragments are built together and tease at congealing throughout the movement, finally climaxing in a full statement of the theme for the grand finale that reveals the full theme.
UPDATES AFTER THE FIRST PRINTING
Mvt 1, bar 37: add mp cresc. for the flute
Mvt 1, bar 53: the final clarinet note is pp, not mp.
Mvt 2, bar 3: change the clarinet's nuance to "answering strongly"
REVIEWS
"Little gems with a Peter Schickele-esque whimsical quality. These duos rise above the mundane with interesting harmonic twists."
– The Clarinet (Gregory Barrett), March 2016
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