Quintet for Flute

Built on the same organizational principle as the Septet Op.23, the piece contains twelve brief movements - none of which are sonata-allegro in form. The whole composition is harmonically of a piece, wandering as far as the supertonic in movement number six, while the seventh movement is an interruption that rapidly recapitulates the harmonic scheme of the entire piece in minimalist form. I was sneering at the first half of this composition while the whole was in draft, but a few strategic changes of register and metronome markings in the final edit lead me to pronounce the finished effort at least worth hearing once or twice.