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This movement completes my trilogy of pieces in the Romantic style for flute and piano inspired by moods of the plays of Hank Ibsen, the first movement being Hedda Gabler, which is also posted here.

This final movement takes the title of Ibsens's Ghosts, which is not about specters or apparitions, but about VD (now referred to by the more polite initials, STD), and the 1881 play was banned for years as being "utter depravity." I tried to keep that in mind when writing the music.

As usual, the sheet music to this piece is available for a token fee at my SibeliusMusic page, where you can watch the notes go by as the music plays. I made it a point to write the piano part much easier than the previous movements.
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Uploaded: Dec 05, 2008 - 04:53:12 PM
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Feter said 338 days ago (December 5th, 2008)
Ghosts
Impressive ...the flute has this 30s feel something in
the scale just so 20th century ..authnetic piano line
this is so alive .Very much shows the musician craft
on your heart ...thnx alot for sharin !!!
kristyjo said 337 days ago (December 6th, 2008)
Very Interesting
Those chromatics in the flute part are so tense. Just right. I'm glad you gave a description of what it was all about, too. This actually has a whole lotta 20th century in it. This could be incidental music for the play - easily. Have you checked this out with a flutist to see how accessible it is for the flute player? It sounds like it would be a real challenge!
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Keith O. Edwards said 335 days ago (December 8th, 2008)
Not So Hard
Sincere thanx, Ms. Johanek! This is not an especially difficult piece for flute. If you wanna see some spectacular flute music, visit the page of Glenn Michael Egner. Some of it seems impossible, but there it is.


The main problem with writing for winds (and especially flute) is not technique, but breathing. All wind instruments require the player to support the tone with a column of air forced up from the lungs. This requires that you provide breathing space in the music, and it explains why there are frequent breaks in the short phrases of the piece.


The only exception to this is an esoteric technique called "circular breathing" -- where the player breathes in and out at the same time. (You try it!) The only time I've actually witnessed an example of circular breathing was a during a performance by virtuoso clarinetist David Krakauer (who favors the Klezmer style but is also a fine classical performer). You can see a video of David Krakauer performing circular breathing at JouTube. When he looks like a fish-out-of-water and is about to sprout gills, that's circular breathing.
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kristyjo said 333 days ago (December 10th, 2008)
Keith
My son, a clarinetist, decided he would learn how to circular breathe, and he can - but only on long, held notes. He can't 'think' of what to do to circular breathe and finger rapid passages at the same time. He's 16 years old, though, so he has some time to learn. He looks like he's suffering from goiter when he does it, and it's a great 'parlor trick'.
I know I've written several pieces for winds in which I didn't put breathing places, and that's a dead give-away that it's software instruments.
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Char said 205 days ago (April 17th, 2009)
Well,
I think this is superb. Thanks.
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composerclark said 172 days ago (May 20th, 2009)
Tarantella
You have written a very organic, unified work, and I am impressed by the fact that you have sustained the listener's attention for as long as this is... very hard to do; it's the hardest thing to teach in composition, and you do a fine job here. Congratulations!

Seems like a tarantella.
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