Sun Left

ANDREW CONKLIN

SUN LEFT

for flute/alto flute, b♭ clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, cello

Full score

IL

Ivy Las Music

Duration: 9 minutes

PROGRAM NOTES I first heard the music of Vicente Lusitano in 2020, which marked the beginning of one of the driest three-year periods in California’s history. The rain and snow returned three years later with a vengeance, and we rejoiced, even as we quietly feared it was too much — all at once — for the parched earth to absorb.

Vicente Lusitano’s radiant vocal music sounds like something beamed in from a distant time and place, which, in a sense, it is. The African-Portuguese composer lived in 16th-Century Europe, where he wrote motets and music theory treatises before falling into obscurity for roughly 400 years. The recent ripple of attention around Lusitano reminds me of the anomalous wetness we Californians enjoyed in 2023. I am glad to see more performances and recordings of his music, yet I sense the brief buzz surrounding the stunning music of this composer may already be receding.

For my part, I seem unable to let go of my fascination with Lusitano’s music, which has seeped into my most recent compositions in different and unexpected ways. Sun Left takes its title from the first stanza of one of Lusitano’s only surviving madrigals, Allor che ignuda: “Now that the earth is stripped of plants and flowers because the sun has left us . . .” Sun Left uses fragments of this madrigal as its initial thematic material. You’ll hear these fragments first as discreet, aphoristic gestures that gradually coalesce into more sustained phrases. The second act of Sun Left is a long and continuous descending gesture, inspired by another Lusitano composition: his bewitchingly chromatic motet, Heu me Domine.

Published by Ivy Las Music www.andrewconklin.net Contact the composer: info@andrewconklin.net © Copyright 2024 by Andrew Conklin and Ivy Las Music (ASCAP) Printed in the U.S.A.

Transposed Score

for Hub New Music

SUN LEFT in response to Vicente Lusitano’s “Allor che ignuda” and “Heu Me Domine” ANDREW CONKLIN

  Alto Flute 

                                    Clarinet in B♭            

          Violoncello   non vib. sul tasto

Violin



      

                

  

6   A. Fl.    

       

        

       

Cl. in B♭

Vln

Vc.

 

  

Slow, even, legato  = 36



11    A. Fl.  







 



Vc.

  





            

    

    

     

  

  

      

 



 

  



                           

       

  

  

© 2024 Andrew Conklin and Ivy Las Music (ASCAP)



        

                                                          Vln    

Cl. in B♭

  

  

                                    



     

        



        



4

16 A. Fl.    Cl. in B♭

   

  Vln  Vc.

 

            

     

         

 

       

                                                 non vib. sul tasto                  

21               A. Fl.                         Cl. in B♭            (non vib.) ord.            Vln       (non vib.) ord.                   Vc.       26   A. Fl. 

     



           

               espr.                    espr.                espr.                   espr.                 

                               Cl. in B♭             s.t. non vib. pizz. s.t. ord.   arco                     Vln                       s.t. non vib.      s.t. ord.                   Vc.                   

5

31   A. Fl. 

Cl. in B♭

Vln

 

    

  

    

  

                                                          

 



 sempre legatissimo  

     Vc.      sempre legatissimo

    

   



             sempre legatissimo         Vln                                 Vc.     

 

ord.

36    A. Fl.       Cl. in B♭ 

42   A. Fl. 

Cl. in B♭

     

  Vln   Vc. 





               

           



                          

  

  



 

  

    

Flute

 

  



    







Take Flute

         languidly



     

      

     







        

 sempre legatissimo    

 



  

 







  



    

       

6

49            Fl. 

Cl. in B♭

  



  



    Vln  Vc.

56 Fl. 

 



        Vln 

Cl. in B♭

Vc.

     





 

   

  

   



 





 

           







   Vc.   



                     



 









 arco 

pizz.                                                    

 





   

  

   







poco

 



  







  

         

  









     

       



 63           Fl.                 Cl. in B♭     Vln    

            







  



    

          





Take Bass Clarinet

 

    





     

7 Take Alto Flute 71 "t"                 Fl.           breathy         B. Cl.                            Vln            non vib. pizz.                 Vc.         

79 A. Fl. 

B. Cl.





 

  



          arco      Vc.   

 

   

Vln

86    A. Fl.  



        Vln            Vc.   

B. Cl.



 

   

     



 





 





 

     

     

  

  

 



  

   



  



 

 

      



 

      



             

     

        

  



  





       

                   pizz. arco             



  



 

           



8

94 A. Fl.   B. Cl.

 



   Vln    

    



 

  

   

102  A. Fl. 



 



Vc.

B. Cl.

Vln

Vc.

  

 

non vib.





    





   

 

 

   

  



   



   

non vib. arco







  



  



 



       



 









 









  



 

 







  







 

 



   



  



 











 



 



 



 

 



 



 





  











 

 



 



 

112 A. Fl.   B. Cl.

Vln





    





















 



   Vc.  

121 Fl. 









 

 





    



 





                Vln 



B. Cl.



 

 Vc. 



approximate pitches











      

 



 



Take Flute











 

 whistle tone   

 fragile and wavering

 hard stop      



   

                espr. ord.











 fragile and wavering

 hard stop    





 III.   







9





         

pizz.

  





   

