Scenes for Flute; Signs, Games and Messages for Flute [Score only]

From the Publisher

The cycle Scenes for solo flute, written in September 1997 and dedicated to Ádám Szokolay, occupies an extraordinary place in György Kurtág's oeuvre. The premiere of the long-withheld composition was held in 2016 on the composer's 90th birthday. Each movement in the cycle reformulates familiar gestures of Kurtág's music: it develops pensive, impetuous, ethereal or playful characters.

Signs, Games and Messages are collections for solo instruments and small chamber ensembles. Each of the three words refers to an essential factor in Kurtág's music. Signs ties to the composer's study year in Paris as a young man, when he could not compose but merely put graphic signs on the paper. Games links with his nine-volume series for the piano with that title. Messages conveys the very personal content of these works, in that these short pieces are actually diary-notes and missives to musicians and friends important to Kurtág. The collection - like similar collections for string and wind instruments - does not form a coherent cycle; the pieces can be played individually, or in various orders, or together with pieces from Signs, Games and Messages written for other instruments.

Contents

Scenes for Solo Flute, Op39

• Signs,Games and Messages for Flute, Alto Flute, Bass Flute and Recorder

  1.	Scenes, Op. 39 - Ballad, a: Ballad (more rhythmic notation)
  2.	Scenes, Op. 39 - Echoes - Back and Forth
  3.	Scenes, Op. 39 - ...preparations, experiments for the creation of a perpetuum mobile...
  4.	Scenes, Op. 39 - A Faltering Confession
  5.	Scenes, Op. 39 - In the Language of the Birds
  6.	Scenes, Op. 39 - Pondering
  7.	Scenes, Op. 39 - Wild and Passionate
  8.	Scenes, Op. 39 - Memories of Gyimes
  9.	Scenes, Op. 39 - Epilogue
  10.	Signs, Games and Messages for flute - Hommage a J. S. B.
  11.	Signs, Games and Messages for flute - Doloroso
  12.	Signs, Games and Messages for flute - Jauchzet und frohlocket! Auf! Schwung!
  13.	Signs, Games and Messages for flute - ...apres un de lecture de Rimbaud...
  14.	Signs, Games and Messages for flute - Bref message a Pierre Boulez
  15.	Signs, Games and Messages for flute - ...ein Brief aus der Ferne an Ursula

• .	Signs, Games and Messages (Chamber works) - Myriam Marbé in memoriam for three recorders (or 2 flutes and alto flute)
  17.	Signs, Games and Messages (Chamber works) - Plaintive Pleading for recorder (or flute) and piano
  18.	Signs, Games and Messages (Chamber works) - ...c'erano due fiori... for flute and bass flute
  19.	Signs, Games and Messages (Chamber works) - Épitaphe a la mémoire de Simone Boisecq for two flutes
  20.	Signs, Games and Messages (Chamber works) - Joli oiseau - en pantomime (Samuel Beckett) for baritone and bass flute

Item Details

Instrumentation

• Part 1: Flute
• Part 2 (Optional): Alto Flute
• Part 3 (Optional): Bass Flute
• Part 4 (Optional): Treble Recorder