Title: Three Monologues for Flute

Artist: Bracha Bdil

Fitness Principles: Happy, Motivation, Energy, Recovery, Technique, ACT, Change, Journey

Description: The work "Three Monologues" is a collection of 3 short Bagatelles for solo flute describing an impression, atmosphere or feeling. Each Bagatelle was written due to a sudden illumination of a single idea and explores the technical and musical possibilities of the instrument.

The work has 3 movements: Wondering, Mischievous, Pastoral. 

21 Fitness Principles Description: The 1st movement – "Wondering" - is written in a free rubato style, recitative. The melodic style  is completely free atonal while the phrase lengths and their relationship are building the movement and its climax. The piece is sort of asking, seeking, wondering, sometimes angry and whistling and sometimes whispering as if talking to itself. These extreme changes in mood are surprising in their juxtapositions. Are we not like that sometimes?

The 2nd movement – "Mischievous" – is also written in an atonal free style but as contradiction to the previous chapter – it is in a dance "swingy" mood, occasionally interrupted by snap phrases. Part of the mischievous character is expressed with the polyrhythmic "pedal points" which confront two alternating tones with a hidden polyphony technique.

The 3rd and last movement – "Pastoral" - is closing a circle and is written in a free rubato style as well. The pentatonic collection of notes has a significant part in producing the natural and tranquil atmosphere. The piece moves between two pentatonic axis until the long wave sound (phrase) that expresses the climax of the movement. After that, all that is left is a distant echo that seals the work.