The Hag of Beara
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PDF score and parts for The Hag of Beara duet for low flutes by Lisa Neher
Commissioned by Flute Specialists, Inc., for the 2024 NFA Convention in San Antonio, Texas for their Showcase: Expanding the Range: Unique Flute Duos.
You will receive 3 versions: alto flute & bass flute duet, duet for 2 alto flutes, and duet for 2 bass flutes.
Program Note
I struggle to identify with young women heroines in fairy tales and myths. Rather, I’m attracted to depictions of powerful, mysterious older women, particularly those who occupy an “in between” space in stories, neither hero nor villain. One such woman is the Russian folk character Baba Yaga. Another is the Irish Hag of Beara.
The Hag of Beara (or Bhéara), a Divine Hag in Irish mythology who appears as an old crone and is the bringer of winter. She can control the weather and wields power over life and death. She is a human embodiment of the metaphor that life waxes and wanes with the tides. She is best known through “The Lament of the Hag of Beara,” a Middle Ages Irish poem in which she mourns the passing of her youth.
In the music, rapid, sweeping passages represent gusts of wind and crashing waves against the Irish shore. A creeping motive slowly ascends, accompanied by mysterious, perhaps even ominous, oscillating accompaniment material, suggesting the approach of the Hag and the coming of winter.
The Hag of Beara was commissioned by Flute Specialists, Inc., for the 2024 National Flute Association Convention. The piece is available in versions for alto and bass flute, 2 alto flutes, and 2 bass flutes.
The Hag of Beara (or Bhéara), a Divine Hag in Irish mythology who appears as an old crone and is the bringer of winter. She can control the weather and wields power over life and death. She is a human embodiment of the metaphor that life waxes and wanes with the tides. She is best known through “The Lament of the Hag of Beara,” a Middle Ages Irish poem in which she mourns the passing of her youth.
In the music, rapid, sweeping passages represent gusts of wind and crashing waves against the Irish shore. A creeping motive slowly ascends, accompanied by mysterious, perhaps even ominous, oscillating accompaniment material, suggesting the approach of the Hag and the coming of winter.
The Hag of Beara was commissioned by Flute Specialists, Inc., for the 2024 National Flute Association Convention. The piece is available in versions for alto and bass flute, 2 alto flutes, and 2 bass flutes.