Dance of the Blessed Spirits for Flute Choir
SM-000232075
Description
- Alternative title
- Danse des Champs Elysee
- Composer
- Christoph Willibald Gluck
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Arranger
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Darrell Goforth
- Publisher
- Darrell Goforth
- Genre
- Classical / Chamber music
- Instrumentation
- Flute, Alto Flute, Bass Flute
- Scored for
- Quintet, Wind ensemble
- Type of score
- Full score, Parts
- Key
- F major
- Duration
- 6'0"
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Year of composition
- 1774
- Description
- "Dance of the Blessed Spirits" appears in the second act of Gluck's monumental opera "Orpheus and Eurydice". Written in a minuet form, the solo flute part is one of the most memorable melodies in the literature. Set in the "Elysium Fields", the dance is both tranquil and melancholy (they are, after all dead). I have added an obligato alto part with the flute which, I think, gives it more of a contemplative quality. I hope you do, too.
- Upload date
- 19 Sep 2015
Comments
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