Flute & String Quartet
SKU: SU.27060280
For Flute & String
Quartet. Composed by
Mark Carlson. Chamber
Music, String
Trio/Quartet/Quintet,
Woodwinds, Flute/Piccolo,
Chamber Music, Mixed
Ensemble. Score & Parts.
Subito Music Corporation
#27060280. Published by
Subito Music Corporation
(SU.27060280).
Six Bagatelles
is a set of whimsical
character pieces which,
in my own
composer’s
perception, provided
balance to some of the
heavier works I had
written over the previous
several years. The first
movement, Humming, not
only hums along like a
well-tuned engine, but it
also evokes a melody that
someone might actually
hum. Let Evening Come is
an arrangement of a song,
for baritone or
mezzo-soprano, flute, and
piano, on Jane
Kenyon’s poem of
the same name—part
of a cycle from 1994
called Night Will
Blossom. The title
Melancholy speaks for
itself, as does that of
the fifth movement,
Solace. Skirmish started
out as a march, but when
changes of meter emerged
in the composing of the
piece, I realized it was
no longer marchable,
though still martial in
character. The final
movement is a Mosaic in
two senses: the
accompaniment in the
strings in the outer
sections of the piece is
made up of small bits of
material, combining to
create an overall
texture; and its middle
section is made up of
fragments of material
heard in earlier
movements. —Mark
Carlson Flute & String
Quartet Composed: 1995
Published by: Pacific
Serenades.
