Medium, Big and Small

Medium, Big and Small
Composed by Bruce Broughton
Duos for flute, alto flute, piccolo, and piano
Published by Brubel Music

Instrumentation:
Movement 1: Flute, piano
Movement 2: Alto flute, piano
Movement 3: piccolo, piano

A modern American composer, he writes for the full spectrum of performed music–television, movie, concert stage and video games.  This piece was commissioned by the Chamber Music Palisades, in honor of their fifteenth season.  Each movement of the duo is for one of the three flutes–the first movement is a duo between flute and piano and the second movement is a duet between alto flute and piano.  The piccolo and piano duet of the third movement are nine variations on Rameau’s Contredance from Le Naissance d’Osiris.