Song for Lyndsay
Grade 3
© 2012, GIA Publications, Inc
Item #: B-B07315 Status: Available
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Description:
This bundle includes:
1. A digital PDF of the Teacher Resource Guide from the Teaching Music textbook
2. An mp3 recording of the work
Song for Lyndsay was commissioned by Jack Stamp at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. It is an expansion on a short and unnamed piano piece that Boysen wrote for his wife, Lyndsay, in 2005.
The wind piece is larger in length and scope than the source material; in the score, Boysen describes it as “a very personal work...more than anything else a simple love song dedicated to Lyndsay and what she has meant in my life.”
The piano piece is used as a starting point, and the material in the winds is either based on or a direct quotation of it. Lyrical in nature and just over five minutes long, the challenge in performing Song for Lyndsay lies in phrasing, rubato, and the use of many dissonance-to-consonance resolutions through suspension and retardation.
Solo horn and solo flute are prominent throughout; this scoring is deliberately and symbolically used because Boysen plays the horn and his wife the plays the flute.
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