David Yeagley David Yeagley

for Flute (or Native American Flute) and Piano

Clouds of an Evening Sun
for Flute (or Native American Flute) and Orchestra
Reduction for Flute (or Native American Flute) and Piano

Composer's note:

As an American Indian composer, I want to create a new art form. I want to bring the world of classical music before the creative spirit of the American Indian. I want to see a new genre of classical contemporary music, created by Indians, expressing the unique Indian ethos and style.

Indians can make an original contribution to music - the same way artists have in the field of sculpture and painting. In the person of James J. Pellerite, an artist performer on the American Indian flute, I find my musical paint brush. I'm using European art tools, modes considered unique in the development of my own tonal and harmonic organization, to say something American Indian. I am able to present my new forms of harmonic organization, my new colors and my new styles of Indian expression.

Clouds of an Evening Sun is a tone poem for the American Indian flute and orchestra, here in a reduction for the flute and piano. It expresses elements of romanticism and varied phrases of intensity. Polytonal melodies and contrasting rhythmic patterns are effectively colorful.