Sea Calm For Flute, Bass Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano
Brian Petuch 2019
Sea Calm Brian Petuch, 2019
Written for Flute, Bass Clarinet in Bb, Violin, Cello, and Piano
Duration: 4 minutes
Cover art by Agnes Martin
A note from the composer Sea Calm is made with musical material that I composed back in 2012 and 2014 for a student song cycle of mine, A Note for Andrea. The song cycle was very much a student piece that had a few successful moments, so I wanted those moments to have a life of their own separate from the songs. Sea Calm is an arrangement of some of those instrumental moments. The title of the piece is taken from the title of one of the poems that I had set to music in the song cycle, Sea Calm by Langston Hughes.
How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water To be so still that way.
Transposed Score
Sea Calm Duration 4 min
Brian Petuch
for Flute, Bass Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano
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