Ensemble - Florence Anna Maunders - Composer

Florence Anna Maunders - Nest Mound - Piano & Percussion

Florence Anna Maunders - Fleeting Images (brass quintet)

Tree Songs - Percussion Quartet

...And This Machine Was Their God - Clarinet, 'Cello & Percussion

The words of Karl Marx, written in 1867, seem almost prophetic, from our viewpoint in the early 21st Century. Marx's vision is of a world in which industrialisation and mechanisation are the new religions, where serving a machine is a form of worship and factory smoke is clouds of incense. We saw this happen, and saw it taken to an extreme both in the capitalist West, where the mechanical was (and still is?) worshipped as a source of wealth, and in the socialist East, where industry + labour itself took on a mythical, heroic status. But we now live in perhaps what is best described as a postindustrial world – factories sit empty or are redeveloped into housing or art galleries – where now is our mechanical deity? Could we still be enslaved to the machine/god's invisible successors? This trio depicts the machine as divine – a vast indifferent god that exists to consume and to produce. The idiom is post-minimalist, in that repetition of small cells occurs, but they are continually recombined and juxtaposed in new combinations and syncopated unisons. A kind of mechanical jazz develops, ecstatically dancing. Clouds of smoke rise like incense, and gong stokes ring out.

Florence Anna Maunders - Not Getting Out - String Quartet

Florence Anna Maunders - Dendroforms - Open Scoring

This is a a set of pieces based on natural shapes created by trees. The graphic scores were made from manipulated photography of images of trees, and images made from trees - paintings made with natural materials, bark rubbings and collages. Originally premiered as a complete cycle by Northern Contemporary Collective in 2018, selections have since been performed worldwide and recorded by leading ensembles and soloists.<br><br>This downloadable PDF includes all 25 Dendroforms (I-XXV) in a large A3 high-resolution colour format, as well as full permissions to perform the music and to print and project the images as part of that performance. It also allows for recording a performance for non-commercial purposes (please contact me if you want to create and release a commercial recording)

Florence Anna Maunders - Uprising - Small Orchestra

This piece was a commission from Skipton Camerata - the professional orchestra for the Yorkshire Dales.<br><br>Picc.Flt.Ob.EngHn.Clt.BClt.Bsn.Cbsn(or Bsn 2) - 2Hns - Timp - Strings<br><br>The download includes a full score, parts, and program notes, all formatted ready to print and play. By purchasing you also gain full rights to perform this work live and to record for non-commercial purposes.<br><br>There are two main kinds of “uprising” in this piece – a direct exploration of the concept of musical lines rising upwards, with a sense of yearning upward ambition in the lines, and also the idea of a popular or political uprising, a struggle for supremacy, a call to action. In this relentless & breathless orchestral showpiece, every section of the orchestra is in a constant kaleidoscopic whirl of action, which starts energetically and doesn't let up until the very final and abrupt conclusion.

Florence Anna Maunders - Badder Gyrations - Small Orchestra

Badder Gyrations is a riotous celebration of underground and urban dance rhythms, as seen though the eyes (or perhaps heard through the ears) of a composer brought up in a rather different tradition. Mutant funk rubs up alongside distorted dubstep and drum 'n' bass, stretching and morphing into new, uncomfortable forms. This RNS prize-winning composition falls into three sections, a firmly grinding opening, which almost feels like a heavy 2-step, a seriously syncopated jazz-funk-influenced central section, featuring interwoven woodwind solos, and a final, massively unsubtle, stomping rhythmic coda.<br><br>Scored for a small orchestra - pairs of woodwind, horns and trumpets, with timpani and strings - an ideal companion to "Uprising"<br><br>Orchestra - 1(+picc).1(+cor).1(+bclt).1(+cbsn) - 2.2.0.0 - timp - strings. Duration ca. 5mins 30sec<br><br>The download includes a full score, parts in PDF format and full permissions to perform in concert and to record for non-commercial uses

Florence Anna Maunders - Galactic Hallucination - Flute, Oboe & Bb Clarinet

This piece was commissioned by The Arc Project as part of a collaboration with artist Desmond Clarke. The music is inspired by his artwork. The sounds of the flute, oboe and clarinet create intricate, repetitive, but disintegrating structures, floating in space, focusing on a central point, and then dissolving into a new form. The music is full of post-minimalist micro-variation and explores the act of creation through a focus on extended woodwind techniques. This is a challenging, but approachable piece for advanced players with a duration of ca. 11 minutes, which is a good introduction to some contemporary performance techniques.<br><br>The download includes a complete score and set of parts with program and performance notes. Additionally, when purchasing this score you will also receive full performance rights for this piece, and the right to record for personal, competition, reference or other non-commercial uses.

Florence Anna Maunders - Galactic Hallucination - Flute, Bb Clarinet & Bassoon

This piece was commissioned by The Arc Project as part of a collaboration with artist Desmond Clarke. The music is inspired by his artwork. The sounds of the flute, clarinet & bassoon create intricate, repetitive, but disintegrating structures, floating in space, focusing on a central point, and then dissolving into a new form. The music is full of post-minimalist micro-variation and explores the act of creation through a focus on extended woodwind techniques. This is a challenging, but approachable piece for advanced players with a duration of ca. 11 minutes, which is a good introduction to some contemporary performance techniques.<br><br>The download includes a complete score and set of parts with program and performance notes. Additionally, when purchasing this score you will also receive full performance rights for this piece, and the right to record for personal, competition, reference or other non-commercial uses.

Florence Anna Maunders - Within Reasonable Limits - Euphonium & Tuba Duet

This is a short (4+ mins), quirky & curious duet for euphonium & tuba.<br><br>This download includes a full score, program notes, parts for performers (including alternative transpositions for euphonium), complete in person/online/streaming performance rights & the right to record for non-commercial use.<br><br>This piece is based on the development of a small motive within reasonable limits – and the motivic material itself is constructed within the reasonable limit of a single whole-tone hexachord and its only transposition. The two instruments work initially together or as a solo line, then independently within each section. The 2nd & 4th sections explore calm mirroring, as if prowling around within a set cage or boundary, while in the central section, the two instruments explore flights of fancy with some exuberance, this energy is short-lived.

Florence Anna Maunders - Take Back - Solo Bass (or Contrabass) Recorder

The title can refer to the idea of regretting doing or saying something, and wanting to take it back, to undo what has occurred, to reset and begin again. The phrase can also reference the concept of reclaiming or taking back something that was once possessed and should now be returned to our possession, for example the idea of taking back the streets or taking back power. In this exciting and compressed composition for solo recorder, the music continually takes phrases back into circulation from earlier parts of the piece, transforming them each time, as if reclaiming or recycling the material and bending it to a new purpose.<br><br>The download includes a complete score with programme and performance notes. Please contact the composer ahead of any public performance of this piece for permissions.

Florence Anna Maunders - Methylphenidate - Clarinet, Alto Saxophone & Trumpet

This is a short (just over 3 minutes), aggressive and hard-hitting trio commissioned by Hypotenuse Trio in 2021<br><br>This download includes the complete score, parts for all instruments, permission to perform the piece and permission to record for non-commercial uses.<br><br>This is an unrelenting and exciting blast of high-energy music, intercut with the frantic rhythms and pulsations of contemporary drum 'n' bass. There's an excellent recording on YouTube from the commissioning group.<br><br>

Florence Anna Maunders - Black Ants/Red Ants - Solo Bass Flute

This 5-6 minute long piece was written for the flautist Ruth Morley, who gave the first performance. <br><br>The download includes a full score, full permission to perform in concert and permission to record for non-commercial uses.<br><br>In this piece two very contrasting types of music are allowed to collide. As the piece progresses, the "spiky music" becomes more condensed and frantic, while the "lyrical music" is allowed more and more space and freedom. You can imagine this as a musical depiction of a "battle for survival" between two different colonies of ants.<br><br>

Florence Anna Maunders - Desert Places - Solo Bass Flute

This 5-6 minute long piece was written for the flautist Carla Rees, who gave the first performance. <br><br>The download includes a full score, programme notes, a multiphonics guide, full permission to perform in concert and permission to record for non-commercial uses.<br><br>It explores two of my great compositional obsessions – jazz harmony and the traditional music of the Middle East – particularly Persian music. The two main types of musical material in this piece are the meditative aalap sections in unmeasured time, which form a series of “musical breaths”, which alternate with some more rhythmical (perhaps even slightly percussive) passages which develop the 10/8 rhythm of the janiman – probably the least common of the traditional Persian dance rhythms. In the slower sections much of the melodic material borrows from the closely related Arabic tradition, in particular the tuning of the maqam hijaz, but also explores the versatility of the bass flute in creating multiphonics which match closely the idiosyncratic tuning of this scale. The more groove-based sections sound distinctly funky in places, with 9th-based harmonic patterns and semiquaver syncopations abounding.

Florence Anna Maunders - So Many F******g Ants

This is my piece So Many F******g Ants for a brass quartet of 2 trumpets & 2 trombones. <br><br>This is an exciting piece, full of contrast between rhythmical and lyrical sections, with a duration of approximately 8.5 minutes.<br><br>The PDF file contains performance notes, a full score and a complete set of parts. Alternate brass transpositions and arrangements may be available on request. Additionally, when purchasing this score you'll also receive individual performance rights for this piece, and the right to record for personal, competition, reference or other non-commercial uses.

Transmission II (brass septet)

This is my piece Transmission II for a brass septet of 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, horn, euphonium and tuba.<br><br>This is a pulsating and exciting piece suitable for moderately advanced players, with a duration of approximately 8 minutes.<br><br>The PDF file contains performance notes, a full score and a complete set of parts. Alternate brass transpositions and arrangements may be available on request. Additionally, when purchasing this score you'll also receive individual performance rights for this piece, and the right to record for personal, competition, reference or other non-commercial uses.

Florence Anna Maunders - Transmission I (brass sextet)

This is my piece Transmission I for a brass sextet of 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, horn and tuba.<br><br>This is a pulsating and exciting piece suitable for moderately advanced players, with a duration of approximately 3 minutes.<br><br>The PDF file contains performance notes, a full score and a complete set of parts. Alternate brass transpositions and arrangements may be available on request. Additionally, when purchasing this score you'll also receive individual performance rights for this piece, and the right to record for personal, competition, reference or other non-commercial uses.

Florence Anna Maunders - Fleeting Images (wind quintet)

This is a printable PDF of the score, parts and performance notes of my piece "Fleeting Images" for a Wind Quintet of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn. The piece is about 4 and half minutes long, and a video performance is available to watch on YouTube or on this site.<br><br>When purchasing this score you'll also receive individual/group/ensemble performance rights for this piece, and the right to record for personal, competition, reference or other non-commercial uses. Please get in touch if you want to program this in a concert (I'd like to know - it's exciting!)

Florence Anna Maunders - Alone Again (solo euphonium)

This is my piece Alone Again for solo euphonium.<br><br>This is an expressive solo piece suitable for advanced players, with a duration of approximately 3m45s.<br><br>The PDF file contains performance notes and the music for both B flat treble clef euphonium and C bass clef euphonium. When purchasing this score you'll also receive individual performance rights for this piece, and the right to record for personal, competition, reference or other non-commercial uses.

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