Monologue turns the flute into a solitary dramatic voice. The instrument’s breath is inseparable from its sound, giving the work a direct physical immediacy: the line seems spoken as much as played.

The title suggests a private utterance rather than a display piece. In this seven-minute span, the flute becomes speaker, listener and resonant space, carrying the full expressive weight without support from another instrument.

As one of Auerbach’s early solo works, Monologue already points toward a recurring concern in her catalogue: the single performer as a complete inner theatre.

• Form One movement.
• Duration Approximately 7 minutes.
• Forces Solo flute.

The flute is one of the most breath-centered instruments, and in an unaccompanied work this quality becomes especially exposed. Each phrase is shaped not only by pitch and rhythm, but by the performer’s breath and physical presence.

Monologue belongs to Auerbach’s group of solo works in which one instrument must sustain the entire expressive world. The work stands near the beginning of that trajectory, preceding later solo pieces for violin, viola, double bass and violoncello.

Boosey & Hawkes / Sikorski lists Monologue for Flute as a 1990 work for solo flute, with a duration of 7′.

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