Spring In Bucks County Flute Solo - Digital Sheet Music

Spring in Buck's County is a 3 Movement composition for piano, flute, alto flute and piccolo.Notes from the Composer:Spring in Bucks County by Godfrey Schroth, is a challenge to both the pianist and flutist, who must play three instruments. The Suite was premiered at the Philadelphia Art Museum in 1974. The opening section has three contrasting dance episodes titled Equinoctial Dances, with a reprise of the first and a coda. River Willows employs the alto flute and evokes youthful nocturnal rambles along the Delaware River. The last movement, the Fields of May, begins at dawn and has many changing moods, with a central, fantastic, syncopated march, which uses the piccolo. There are allusions to earlier themes, a restless surging theme leading to a climactic piccolo passage and subsiding to a nostalgic Epilogue, and a reluctant farewell to spring. - G. SchrothHear "Spring in Buck's County" on YouTube:Movement 1: Equinoctial Dances https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDdf6obMHAcMovement 2: River Willows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj3c6Ouvp9EMovement 3: Fields of May https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8a8mvEqWlAAbout the Composer:Godfrey Schroth (1927-2017) was a pupil of the noted American composer, Paul Creston. Mr. Schroth first came to attention in 1959, when his Piano Quintet won the LADO Foundation Prize for chamber music, premiered in New York by the Phoenix Quartet. Many published choral and organ pieces followed and A Solemn English Mass was the first vernacular setting sung at St. Patrick's Cathedral. In 1973, on a grant from the NJ Arts Council, he wrote Rocky Mountain Serenade for Strings, Percussion and Guitar for the Pueblo (Colorado) Arts Festival. In 1979 he completed Green Graves and Violets, a vocal chamber cycle, which celebrated the writings of a forgotten Civil War poetess, the tragic Ellen Howarth. The Mystic Trumpeter, a work for chorus and wind instruments on a Walt Whitman text, was commissioned by the Pro Arte Chorale and received its premiere performance in March 1999.Mr. Schroth’s compositions span a period of more than 40 years, and show the influence that travel and poetry had on his writings. Godfrey’s lifelong dedication to music and piano education led to his inclusion in the International Dictionary of Musicians and recognition in Who’s Who in American Music.