Description
Wedding Madrigal Op.56
Composed by Kirke Mechem
For flute and piano
Published by G. Schirmer
Allegretto: dotted quarter=116 | Misurato (non affrettando) | Largo
“The music is built around the superimposition of the dominant and tonic chords. In every marriage – so learned doctors tell us – only one partner can be dominant. The other must obviously be a tonic. That the two can live together in harmony is the burden of this wedding song. But in the end – and I am sure the worthy doctors would agree – each must learn to be a tonic to the other. Accordingly, at the close of the piece, the dominant chord merges into the tonic.” — Kirke Mechem