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Sonatina for Flute and Piano by Eldin Burton is his most well-known piece, which he arranged from a piano piece written as a composition exercise. It has three movements with distinct characters - the first is elegant and lively, the second is dream-like, and the third is fast and playful like a Spanish dance. Density 21.5 is a solo flute piece by Edgard Varèse written in 1936 and revised in 1946 at the request of flautist Georges Barrère for the premiere of his platinum flute. The title refers to the density of platinum. The piece focuses on timbre and features unusual rhythms to showcase the deep, projecting sound of

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Junior Recital Program Notes Wendlick

Sonatina for Flute and Piano by Eldin Burton is his most well-known piece, which he arranged from a piano piece written as a composition exercise. It has three movements with distinct characters - the first is elegant and lively, the second is dream-like, and the third is fast and playful like a Spanish dance. Density 21.5 is a solo flute piece by Edgard Varèse written in 1936 and revised in 1946 at the request of flautist Georges Barrère for the premiere of his platinum flute. The title refers to the density of platinum. The piece focuses on timbre and features unusual rhythms to showcase the deep, projecting sound of

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Program Notes by Megan Wendlick

Sonatina for Flute and Piano by Eldin Burton


Eldin Burton is an American-born composer and pianist. He was born in Georgia in 1913
and died in Florida in 1979. Sonatina for Flute and Piano is his most well-known piece. He
arranged it from a piano piece that he wrote as an exercise in a composition course at the Julliard
School in New York. In 1948, the piece won the Composition Contest of the New York Flute
Club. He premiered the piece with flautist Samuel Baron.
Sonatina for Flute and Piano has three distinct movements. The first movement,
Allegretto grazioso, features an elegant song-like melody. It includes many runs and arpeggiated
passages, making it lively and flashy. The second movement, Andantino Sognado, is very
dream-like. It contains lyrical passages and intense moments. The third movement, Allegro
giocoso quasi fandango, is fast and playful. It is in a triple meter and sounds like a lively Spanish
dance

Density 21.5 by Edgard Varèse


Edgard Varèse was born in Paris, France in 1883. When he was young, he composed
without any formal training. He then studied with Vincent d’Indy, Albert Roussel, and Charles
Widor. He moved to Berlin in 1907 and the United States in 1915. He focuses on timbre and
rhythm in his music, and his works are dissonant, nonthematic, and rhythmically asymmetric. He
describes his music as bodies of sound in space. He founded the International Composers’ Guild
in 1921 and the Pan-American Association of Composers in 1926. These organizations held
performances and premieres of pieces by many famous composers, including Béla Bartók,
Charles Ives, and Maurice Ravel. He wished for the invention of new instruments, and in the
1950s he began composing electronic music. Varèse died in New York in 1965.
Density 21.5 is a piece for solo flute written in 1936 and revised in 1946. Georges
Barrère requested Varèse to write this piece for the premiere of his platinum flute. The title of the
piece is named after the density of platinum, which is 21.5 grams per cubic centimeter. Because
of its density, the platinum flute produces a very deep and projecting sound. This piece should be
performed with this type sound. The distinct style of Barrère is very apparent in this piece. Since
this piece was written for the platinum flute, there is a heavy focus on timbre. There are also
unusual and uneven rhythms throughout the piece. This piece is based on one modal and one
atonal melodic idea. Although it is unaccompanied, the contrast between registers and dynamics
adds a polyphonic effect.
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