Diary of A Stay In Scotland (flute quartet)

Diary of A Stay In Scotland   duration: 5′

 

Flute quartet

   

This piece starts with a few, very high, sporadic piccolo notes…and you will find yourself listening to a smoke detector!  Please read on!…. not what you may expect!

We were staying with my Aunt and Uncle for a few days in Scotland (Border country). My Aunt was making soup for lunch and my Uncle was checking the smoke alarms: I was immersed at some music at the kitchen table, supposed to be checking some score or other… but it was just too irresistible and the “itch simply had to be scratched” and before I kew it, the smoke detector had found its way onto the page! After the opening bars had been written, I decided to join my husband in the little summer house with a mug of tea, and went on with “the delight of he moment”. I’d only been there a minute and it began to pour; and the rain poured the notes onto the manuscript too.

 

Later, we went for a drive (in the rain) which finally ceased late afternoon and we set off on a short walk, full of the delightful post-rain smell of damp earth and freshness…and that is where I spotted the little harebells (blue bells of Scotland). Saturday am: fine sunshine, so we set off with  some bread and hunks of cheese and apples for a walk in heather-filled landscapes of rising hills, ferns, woods, corries of stillness filled with dragonflies, solitary pines…and peace. Harebells grew in the grass, and there was nothing but the sound of open space…

 

A little diary, in music…

 

Scored for 4 flutes plus a few bars of picc. at the opening in one part only.

 

Please note, the sound file here is an electronic file.

 

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Score £4.00    (contains programme note)

Parts  £6.00

 

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