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Flight of Fancy, scored for recorder orchestra in ten parts (‘NSSAATTBgBcB), is rather, a “bird fancyer’s delight”.  This fantasy movement is filled with a cacophony of sounds mimicking birds great and small both in flight, and fluttering about in animated excitement.  The main theme consists of a rapid burst of sixteenth notes, and is introduced by a soprano recorder.  This run of sixteenths is developed throughout the piece with rhythmic variations created by careful placement of rests to further intensify its pulsating energy through syncopation.  Sound columns in notes of longer duration periodically interrupt the perpetual motion of the continuous sixteenth notes.  A final uproar of high-spirited and chirpy dissonance brings the piece to a close.