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Transcript of Sonata for Flute and Piano
Michael Mikulka
Sonata for Flute and Piano
This sonata is dedicated to flutist Timothy Hagen.
Last year, Tim premiered one of my scherzos for flute and piano: he liked it but thought it was too short,
and commissioned me to write him a sonata's worth of it. I took this literally and based the sonata around that scherzo
(it is the 3rd movement). The mood of that scherzo is used to depict a gradual transformation towards insanity:
even in the most peaceful moments, the scherzo and the mood associated with it are inescapable.
The first movement’s main theme is full of over-the-top cheeriness, as the protagonist is still in denial. There are
troubling signs interspersed, however, and the movement begins and ends with a manic and aggressive fanfare.
The second movement lets out some of the grief, but is still struggling to sound pretty and happy.
The third movement is maniacal in a playful way: the flutist is beginning to welcome
the insanity more than they are fighting it.
It is with this acceptance that the fourth movement can finally express much of the hurt that
has been held within for the first half of the piece: the fourth movement is the most introspective
of the composition, and at its completion, the flutist takes a short cadenza to decide how to react.
The opening chords of the fifth movement remove any doubt, and the protagonist
is thrown fully into a bipolar mania, leading to an exciting conclusion.
Flute
Piano
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Brash and chaotic
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I.
Michael Mikulka
Sonata for Flute and Pianofor Tim Hagen
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Lightly, over-the-top cheerfully
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Abruptly creepy, quasi-insane
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Delicately at first, with passion
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ad lib.
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impassioned
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Playfully maniacal
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Cadenza, ad lib.
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extremely light
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passionately
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