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Idyll for Flute and String Quartet is subtitled "Songs of the Land." These are four
movements which are bucolic in nature: "My Green Homeland," "Air," "Specks of Light" and
"On the Wind." The music was created in the composer's studio on a dairy farm in rural
Vermont.
"My Green Homeland" is the most melodic of the four movements. A simple theme in the flute is
gradually surrounded by the strings. The texture is sparse and open, like a broad expanse of
countryside.
The title "Air" has two meanings to the second movement: there is a melody (or "air") which is
introduced in the flute; and this theme floats above the strings, perhaps as on a breeze. At the
end of the movement, the theme descends in glissandi in the strings.
"Specks of Light" is a free-form movement, with delicate patterns of sound repeating ad lib in the
strings. The flute material consists of short motifs, or "wisps of sound." At the end, the patterns
rise into harmonics for the strings, and a final blurred filigree is heard in the flute.
"On the Wind" refers to a strong and constant flow of air, as the flute has much material to play.
This is a lively jig intended to keep the energy flowing and blowing!

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