Ballade

Ballade for Alto Flute, Bass Flute and Piano by Daniel Dorff

Piano score and parts

A change of pace for low flutes, Dorff’s Ballade is a 7-minute slow-fast-slow exploration. The rich beauty of alto and bass flute sonorities, particularly in their low registers, is inspired by jazz vocal stylings along with a theatrical approach to duet writing, as dialogue and counterpoint between the instruments builds to dramatic unison passages in octaves.