Florence Anna Maunders (1978): Desert Spaces (2021)

Florence Anna Maunders (1978): Desert Spaces (2021) for Recorder, Panflute, Viola, Accordion, Percussion Honorary Mention Black Pencil Prize 2021 Recorded at the Orgelpark Amsterdam, during the Prix Annelie de Man on Jorge Isaac blockflute Matthijs Koene panflute Esra Pehlivanli viola Marko Kassl accordion Enric Monfort percussion This piece 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 which feel static and almost unmeasured, floating in time, which form a series of musical breaths, which alternate with some more rhythmical and markedly 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