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SKU: A0.736281
Composed by Phyllis Avidan Louke, ASCAP. Christmas,Contemporary,Hanukkah. 32 pages. Louke Publishing #3636221. Published by Louke Publishing (A0.736281).For Flute Choir
A Song of Winter-Snowmen & Icicles
byPhyllis Avidan Louke
Evocative of a cold and windy day in winter, A Song of Winter explores the contrasts between the smoothness and roundness of a snowman and the hardness and jaggedness of icicles.
Beginning with a winter storm with wind and swirling snow, the wind calms, and the building of a snowman begins with the rolling of a snowball. The rolling forms the biggest ball of the snowman (represented by the bass and alto flutes), which is briefly interrupted by a playful snowball fight. The flutes continue the melody for the rolling of the second ball of the snowman, followed by the piccolo representing the rolling of the smallest ball (the head of the snowman). The melody is smooth and round in a lilting I time.
With the snowman complete, the wind and swirling snow return to lead into the Icicles section. The jaggedness of the icicles is represented by the jaggedness of syncopation in a marcato style with the melody skipping larger intervals than the Snowmen melody. Visually, the score shows the jagged shape of the icicles. Double-tongued ascending and descending lines, add to hard and brittle feeling of the icicles, as well as to the shape of the melody. The piccolo adds the glistening, shimmering effect of sunlight reflecting off the icicles. Eventually, fragments of the Snowmenmelody are interspersed with the Icicles, followed by a final wind storm, which calms at the end of the piece.
Christmas
Winter
Winter Holidays
Stormy
Concert
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