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Cantique des créatures de St. François d’Assise
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Cantique des créatures de St. François d’Assise Flute - Sheet Music

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Soprano voice and flute - Grade 4

SKU: ET.V23

Composed by Jean Balissat. Contemporary. Composed 1972. Duration 4'. Editions BIM #V23. Published by Editions BIM (ET.V23).

ISBN 9790207001078.

Unadorned, unaffected and therefore deeply moving, the Cantique des créatures de Saint François d’Assise (Song of the Creatures of St Francis of Assisi) called for a musical approach which observed its Franciscan spirit of extreme asceticism.

While the voice intones the prayer of St Francis, maintaining a sense of detachment at all times, the ornamentations of the flute conjure up, in turn, the sun, moon, wind, the natural elements, death...

As far as the performers are concerned, they have to sustain the tension unfailingly throughout the work’s four minutes, especially in the links between the different sections.
Jean Balissat.

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