Flute,Piano - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.943194 Composed by Robert Cunningham. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and part. 17 pages. Robert E Cunningham #4992663. Published by Robert E Cunningham (A0.943194). Lament for Flute and Piano (1991, rev. 2016) was inspired by the ideals of the Camerata in late sixteenth-century Florence and by the vibrant new musical style to which they gave rise, displayed in the earliest operas at the dawn of the Baroque period. The piece opens with a recitative by the flute, accompanied by continuo-like chords in the piano. A sorrowful aria-like melody follows, and later the flute and piano melodies are interwoven into an expressive duet.  

Flute,Piano - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.943191 Composed by Robert Cunningham. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and part. 50 pages. Robert E Cunningham #4728515. Published by Robert E Cunningham (A0.943191). The Variations for Flute and Piano (1990) are a dynamic and virtuosic work consisting of an original theme, ten variations, and a coda.  In addition to traditional devices like contrapuntal imitation, inversion, and fragmentation, many of the variations hearken back to earlier periods in music history.  Variation III is suggestive of an aria from Baroque opera, Variation VIII spoofs twentieth-century avant-garde music, and the piano part in Variation X evokes Rachmaninoff.  The brilliant coda is a pyrotechnic tour de force for both players.