Floating, Flying
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Composed
- 2024
- Duration
- 7'30''
- Publisher
- Composer (self-published)
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About this piece
Floating, Flying (2024) is a piece of about seven and a half minutes for cello and piano, commissioned by the Cello Teaching Repertoire Consortium as its 2024 teaching commission. The consortium asked Wallace for a piece aimed at students around Suzuki Book 4. In a consortium video she said the music would draw on Bach's solo-cello minuets and on fiddle-style playing, with some experimental sounds. The opening, marked "Stealthy", sets plucked notes against short bowed notes, and the composer's store describes it as a piece for students finishing Suzuki Book 4 and moving into Book 5.
Technical overview
The first page switches back and forth between pizzicato and arco, with sudden mf/p contrasts, dotted-eighth/sixteenth figures and chromatic accidentals in A major, and changes from 4/4 to 3/4.
Technical focus
- Pizzicato
- Dotted Rhythms
- Accidentals
- Meter Changes
- Dynamics
- Collaboration with Piano