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Flute Sonata, FP 164

195712 min

This guide follows Poulenc’s Flute Sonata, FP 164 (1957) in three parts: Allegro malinconico (sonata form), Cantilena. Assez lent and Presto giocoso (sonata form).

Recording: Joséphine Olech (flute), Marcell Szabo (piano) (2021)

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AnalysisComments
  1. I · Sonata form
  2. II.
  3. III · Sonata form
I Sonata form0:09–4:40

The flute sings a descending built on a broken triad over an arpeggiated piano, and a five-note arpeggio drives the music. The melancholy stays light. After a long first section come a and the ; a counter- in F major also appears. Then the first , then the second, and the ending (the ) plays with blue shifts between major and minor thirds.

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II. 4:59–8:57
III Sonata form9:10–12:38

Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.

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Francis PoulencChamber musicModern periodSonata form

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