Monologue for flute solo
William Roger Price: Monologue for flute solo was written in 2018 and dedicated to flutist Iwona Glinka. The piece showcases the composer's focus on temporal disruption and gestural narrative, as part of a series of solo flute works, including Strata I (1997) and Signals (2019/2020), which often explore the juxtaposition of dissimilar textures and tempi.
In 2018, Price’s research and composition focused heavily on "temporal disruption" and its effect on musical narrative. This involves the use of "violent interjections," "extended interruptions," and "longer musical digressions" to create energy and contrast.
At the time of composition, Dr. Price was serving as Professor of Music and Coordinator of Music Theory and Composition at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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William Price is an American composer whose works have been performed at various Festivals and Conferences throughout the world. His research and music has focused on the use of temporal disruption and its effect on the progress of the musical narrative, exploring and developing three basic concepts typically associated with discursive semantics: the brief “interjection”, extended “interruption”, and musical “digression”.
He received his musical education at the University of Alabama and Master’s degree from Louisiana State University where he studied composition with Dinos Constantinides and electroacoustic composition with Stephen David Beck. Currently William Price serves a Professor of Music and Coordinator of Music Theory and Composition at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).