for Tuba and Piano, 5 min duration

Written for, and commissioned by Dr. Jonathan Rowsell

“Fluttered the Straying Butterfly” is a work that asks us to notice things, to notice things that perhaps

go by unnoticed in our everyday life. It is a work that makes use of larger intervalic content and

frequent use of long durations tied over barlines to evoke this sense of something beyond our grasp,

something perhaps just beyond our gaze – a calling to seek out and reach towards, or to notice life’s

fleeting moments. Woven through the score are lines from Tomas Tranströmer’s poetic canon which

speak to the music’s metaphoric intentions.

duration 4.5-5min

n.b. some pedal markings indicated, pedal freely elsewhere at your discretion

-also available for Trumpet and Piano (arranged for Yanbin Chen, Shanghai Normal University)