Flute Repertoire Inspired by Myth/Legend Collected and Compiled by Michelle Cheremy Notes in parentheses are from those who contributed information. Notes in square parentheses are from Michelle Cheremy. Mouquet, "La Flute de Pan" Jolivet, "Chant du Linos" Fukushima, "Mei" (based on the legend that the sound of the flute can reach the dead) Hoover, "Kokopeli", "Winter Spirits" Charpentier, "Pour Syrinx" Debussy, "Afternoon of a Faun" (arranged in International edition) Debussy, "Chansons de Bilitis" (flute and narator, maybe harp too--but apparently the poetry is a bit risque, at least in the original French) Dukas, "La plainte, au loin, du faune" (I think that this is the one that has the snippet from Afternoon of a Faune at the end) Roussell, "Joueurs de flute" (Krishna...) Reinecke, "Sonata" Debussy, "Syrinx" Musgrave, "Narcissus" Gluck, "Dance of the Blessed Spirits" from "Orpheus" Faure, "Sicilienne" from "Pelleas et Melisande" (I'm not sure if Maeterlink's story was based on a myth, but the setting and plot sounds very mythological as does the sicilienne) Donjon, "Pan - Pastorale" Matsudaira, "Somaksah" (written in 1962 and dedicated to Gazzelloni). It's published by Subini Zerboni (5868). Somaksah is, the tale runs, a spirit of a mountain who suddenly begins dancing under the spell of a flute played by a monk. John H. Thow, "To Invoke the Clouds" (based on the Hopi flute melody to invoke rain) Alan Ridout, "The Emperor and the Bird of Paradise" [uses narrator. Is not strictly speaking based on an existing myth/legend] Herbert Lindholm, "Many of my works are in touch with mythologie. You can find them on my site: Herbert Lindholm in Finland Charles Camilleri, "Song of Olympus" for solo flute Jon Kimura Parker, "Pan Dreams" for Flute and Piano Return to Repertoire Page