Woods In Spring

This piece for is Flute or Treble Recorder (for which there is an ossia section) and piano. It is a creative and flexible resource for the music studio. Soloist and accompanist can play the folk-like melodies together and then the soloist can try out the many suggestions for the flute to decorate the melody and improvise new tunes (two whole pages!). The attractive and fairly easy piano part makes for an enjoyable ensemble experience for pianists of modest achievements. Flutists who have played this piece as written, at an earlier stage, can return to it later to develop their creative ideas. Exploration of this sort is an enjoyable way of preparing for the more mature approach to repertoire required at later stages.