| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 1 piece |
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| Composition Year | 1989 |
| Genre Categories | Pieces; For piano; Scores featuring the piano; For 1 player |
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| Work Title | Ideas and Transformations for Solo Flute |
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| Alternative. Title | |
| Composer | Sydeman, William Jay |
| I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IWS 65 |
| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 1 piece |
| Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1989 |
| First Publication. | 2019 |
| Dedication | Astrid Tiersch |
| Average DurationAvg. Duration | 3-4 minutes |
| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Modern |
| Piece Style | Modern |
| Instrumentation | flute |
In the early 1980s, I taught at the Rudolf Steiner College in Sacramento. The major Steiner art form is Eurythmy, which he called the yoga of the west, but unlike yoga it is performance oriented as dance. I worked with many eurythmists and wrote a great deal of music for them. This was one of these pieces.
So the Idea has the cells of many ideas… short, astringent, and very specifically for the flute. Transformation 1 works with a series of 16ths; very brief Transformation 2 is a kind of mocking dance; Transformation 3 develops the more lyric elements of the Idea, albeit interspersed with mini interruptions, while Transformation 4, acting as a coda, begins with material from Transformation 1 and runs with it. All very fluty indeed.
– W. Jay Sydeman
