Richard Patterson (*1952) composed his Meadowsong in 1984. The piece begins with a solo guitar:, an iridescent, sound space similar to the harp is created by using interweaving sounding chords, that give the impression of a wide meadow landscape. At the entry of the flute it initially nestles up to the guitar, but in the following sections it emancipates itself more and more over the constant pattern of the guitar to successively acquire its on melodic outline..(..)

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