Music for Twelve Flutes
With a Supplement of Short Pieces for Flutes
Composed by Nelson Keyes
Edited by Katherine Borst Jones
Published by Alry Publications
Includes score and parts
Instrumentation: 12 c flutes (Flutes 1, 2 and 3 double on piccolo)
Study for Twelve Flutes
Four Chorales
Study in Four Parts
Part of the KBJ Collection Flute Troupe Series. Nelson Keyes (1928-1987) was born in Oklahoma, educated at the University of Texas, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California, and a student of Wilbur Ogden, Kent Kennan, Arnold Schoenberg, Halsey Stevens and Ingolf Dahl. He served as composer-in-residence for the Louisville Public Schools, Louisville, Kentucky as part of the Young Composers’ Project, sponsored by the Ford Foundation, from 1961-1964. Keyes wrote Music for Twelve Flutes for the DuPont Manuel High School flute section, Louisville, Kentucky. The piece was premiered on March 27,1962 at their Spring Concert, conducted by band director, A.J. Asch.
