Songs of Sea and Sky for Flute and Piano

Name: Songs of Sea and Sky for Flute and Piano
Brand: Faber Music
Price: 51.00 AUD
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SKU 0571553109DEV

Songs of Sea and Sky was inspired by a traditional dance song from Saibai, an island just south of Papua New Guinea, in Torres Strait. The song was collected on Saibai by Jeremy Beckett in May 1961. Much of the surviving music of Torres Strait is concerned with sea voyages, flights of birds and changes in sea and sky. Some of the music has been influence by hymns introduced by missionaries in the nineteenth century. The work is in one continuous movement consisting of seven parts : Prelude, a somewhat dramatic saxophone solo; Saibai, a reworking of the traditional melody; Interlude, a second solo; Mission Hymn, a variation of Saibai; Dance Song, a rhythmic section based upon the material presented in the Prelude and Interlude; Lament, a second variation of Saibai; and Postlude, a brief coda. Following the climax, at the end of the Dance Song, the emotional content of the music culminates in the Lament. Here, the music yearns for the years before settlement.