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Small Ensemble Flute - Digital Download SKU: A0.942077 Composed by Apostolos Paraskevas. 20th Century,Contemporary,World. Score and parts. 7 pages. Silver Sickle Publications #4780575. Published by Silver Sickle Publications (A0.942077). When I composed Lament for solo flute back in 1995, my main goal was to portray elements of a tragedy (usually dealing with Death) with all those idiosyncrasies someone could find in certain cultures.  Always there is a point, in the sadness of the His presence (Death), when people (especially in some cultures) need to laugh, dance. The "dance" part in Lamentation comes to portray this aspect. Lamentation? starts with a narrative and mournful way. Melancholic would be a more sufficient characterization. The dance that follows is this specific element that keeps the balance between sadness and joy in certain devastating situations. Characteristic lament sounds are the quarter-tones and the existence of a glissando chord which the performer realizes by playing and singing at the same time.For this work I did use thoughts and feelings derived from my homeland in Greece that I tried to transfer with a direct and at the same time a dynamic way for the performer.Apostolos Paraskevas is a classical guitarist and composer as well as an award-winning film director and producer. He has received multiple international awards for his compositions and was nominated for a Grammy Award. He is the only guitarist ever to have a major orchestral piece performed at Carnegie Hall under the direction of Lukas Foss––and the only musician who has performed there in a Grim Reaper outfit. He was the founder and served for 16 years as the artistic director of the International Guitar Congress-Festival of Corfu, Greece. He is a voting member of the Recording Academy (Grammys). After his undergraduate music studies in Volos he pursued advanced studies in classical guitar with Costas Cotsiolis (diploma, 1990) and Leo Brouwer (Havana 1984, 1988), as well as postgraduate studies in composition with Lukas Foss and Theodore Antoniou (DMA in composition, Boston University, 1998). Paraskevas embarked on a successful career as a guitar soloist and contemporary composer, achieving distinctions in both disciplines: Grammy nomination for Chase Dance (Bridge Records, 1999); first prize for Night Wanderings (Lukas Foss Composition Competition, 2000); first prize for Phygein Adynaton (National Composers Conference, 1997); and numerous prestigious commissions, performances, and publications. Following teaching posts at Northeastern and Boston Universities, Paraskevas has taught since 2001 at the Berklee College of Music in Boston (professor of compositionand classical guitar).His eclectic compositional style arises as an idiosyncratic integration of seemingly conflicting influences– from avant-garde approaches to harmonic structure, form, and timbre, to pop-folk modal and rhythmical concepts – amalgamated into a personal evocative musical language, characterized by rhythmic verve, melodic grace, dramatic (and sometimes unexpectedly humorous) gestures, and ritualistic or theatrical elements. The latter feature has also led Paraskevas to the creation of films, notably the acclaimed I Finally Did It (Gold award, California Film Awards 2010), dealing wittily with Death, a recurring extra-musical theme in his music.The Groves Dictionary of MusicCostas Tsougras This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard’s global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds. About Digital Downloads Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music, you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and you don’t have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play! PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).