Vignettes

Instrumentation

Flute and piano

Duration

6:37

Tempo

Graceful ♩ = 65

Delivery Method

Digital Download

Notes on the piece

Vignettes is a duet for flute and piano comprised of multiple contrasting sections, or ‘vignettes’ linked together like a patchwork to tell the full story. It begins with an ethereal entrance, utilizing the flute’s ability to bend pitches. This entrance becomes the glue between the contrasting vignettes, the first vignette being a smooth, syncopated dance in A major. This morphs into a short lively section in E major, which then slows down into a jazzy D-flat major ballad. This ballad modulates into the entrance, which gives way to the 4th vignette, a moody E minor waltz. At the end of the E minor section, the 1st vignette in A major is reintroduced. Finally, the journey ends with one last rendition of the entrance, an octave lower in the flute.