Midday Hues (2017)

Midday Hues for flute, bass clarinet, and piano 2017

Laura M. Kramer

Duration: 3:30 minutes

Transposed Score

Instrumentation: Flute B-flat Bass Clarinet Piano Transposed Score Duration: 3:30 minutes

Program Note: Midday Hues was written for high school students at the 2017 California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA).

With less than a week to compose the piece, and only a short amount of time to rehearse it and perform it, I decided to have the students be part of the composing process. Rather than write the entire work and then rehearse it, I instead would compose several excerpts, read them with the students, and then go back and revise the sketches, write more, and even erase some passages! Working this way was a quite a special experience – the students’ reactions along the way had a tremendous influence on how I went about composing the next sketches. With such a process, the work turned into an ongoing variation of one motive. I composed much of the work during my afternoon break time in a room at Cal Arts with large windows that revealed a view of the surrounding mountains. Such surroundings induced sleepy, clustery sounds, combined with sweet, rising and falling motives.

Midday Hues

Transposed Score

for flute, bass clarinet, and piano 2017 Laura M. Kramer (b.1984)

Bb Bass Clarinet

Piano

Fl.

B. Cl.

Pno.

7

B. Cl.

Pno.





 



p







 





accel.





3

 

 



dolce

       

     

             

     poco

      



     





      







   

 







   

15





  



    3







   

  

cresc poco a poco

poco

  

 



cresc poco a poco





  

poco





         

p



 

 

  

  

  

dolce









8





pp dolce

    





 

       

 









13

Fl.

  

Restful q = ca. 68



Flute









   

   cresc poco a poco     

3



With Motion q = ca. 92

         f

         f

 



    

 

        

                                                f

 

  Copyright © 2017 Laura M. Kramer (ASCAP)



  

2



 





17

Fl.

B. Cl.

Pno.





 

       3

3

 

 

B. Cl.

    



 

 

Pno.

Fl.

B. Cl.

Pno.



26



  



 

  

mf





    

 



    

 





Fl.

mf

                     

21

      

3

3



19

     

              

rit.

 

 



25 Tempo Primo q = ca. 68         



p espress.



pedal ad lib.



  

      

         

                 



    

   



     

3



    





p

 

   



   



     

    

mf

    

   

       

   



   

3



    





3





p espress.

  









  

 

p





 



   



                 



Fl.



32





  





pp

Pno.

Fl.

B. Cl.

Pno.



B. Cl.

 p

 



3





 





     



mf

     

 pp

mf

  













    mf

p

 





      



       

     

  

 

      

       





   

    

   



          





   

     

43

3

      

         

 

pp

Lively q = ca. 80





 

 

   

   

  

   

Pno.



 

    

 











44

Fl.

 

3

37

3

p

       pp     38



  



      

3

pp

espress

B. Cl.

   







    

       

   

    

            

              

                      



   

   

  



 





 

                 



   

Pno.

Fl.

B. Cl.

Pno.

Fl.

B. Cl.

Pno.

                     53 Tempo Primo q = ca. 68   



      

   



    



 



       

      















 

     





 

  p

   





    



62



              



poco



 





 





pp

pp



     

ppp 3

 

p

  

   

   

  

        







  



poco



 



dolce



    

 





3



 

 

  

              







59

   



pp

 



          



ppp



       

rit.

              

58

ppp

 

     

      

      



B. Cl.



  

   



Fl.

48



4

 



    