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Floppy Blue was commissioned by two young, talented recorder players for the final of the international Competition in Utrecht where they were prize-winners. I thought that the piece should be difficult, bringing into play various techniques and means of expression of which I knew they would be more than capable whilst having some fun.
A short, slightly bluesy-jazzy theme is dealt with in multiple ways: in accompanied melody, in counterpoint, dislocated, in sound effects, in canon, and then, after a more lyrical passage, in a kind of delirious stretto.
The playing starts on the bass recorders to end, after two changes of instruments, with 4 high recorders, each player having to play two instruments simultaneously, inevitably in rather rhythmically identical but melodically different parts, the whole being spiced up with a short improvised passage and a little polyrhythm.
