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Email to PurchaseMusic for Magpies
Official edition of "Music for Magpies" by Emily Doolittle, published by Composers Edition (ce-ed1mfm1), scored for 长笛. Edition includes 1 part, 16 pages.
- Composer
- Emily Doolittle
- Publisher
- Composers Edition
- Catalog No.
- ce-ed1mfm1
- Instrumentation
- 长笛
- Instruments
- Specifications
- 1 parts · 16 pages (Single Score)
- Purchase Orders
- cdiyao@gmail.com (Email to Purchase)
Parts & Score Materials
| Part Name | Instrument | Pages |
|---|---|---|
| 长笛 | Flute | 16 pages |
Work & Edition Details
Music for Magpies was commissioned by Karin Preslmayr for viola da gamba with quarter-tone frets, and was subsequently transcribed for flute at the request of Cliff Dunn. The first movement is a direct transcription of the song of the Pied Butcherbird, an Australian bird with a sense of musical pitch and structure remarkably similar to humans. The second movement takes the song of the Hoopoe Lark as a starting point, but I've shaped the form of the song into something more music-like. After writing these two movements, I found that I liked trying to think like a bird so much that I made up three fictitious birds, the Ringed River Snike, the Pileated Pocket Grouse, and the Green-Rumped Antstalker: their songs make up the remaining two movements of the piece.
