LaFi Publishers, Ltd.

Latin American Frontiers International Publishers, Ltd.

About LaFi

Composers

Authors

Audio Clips

Catalog

To Contact Us

Home

Guest book

Back to catalog

Back to music

Four Miniatures for Flute and Bb Clarinet (1981)

I wrote these miniatures back in the spring of my freshman year at Indiana University. Even though I wrote these miniatures over twenty years ago, I find in them the things that always interest me. There's a South American flavor that infiltrates these pieces. Rhythms work as a unifying component throughout them. For instance, they all used imitation as a common denominator. The first and third are the shorter ones of the set, the second one seeks to evoke an intimate and spiritual mood. The last is a bright and sparkly one with groupings of three against two, which has become a recurrent element in my music.

Efraín Amaya (2003)