Saunders - Into the Blue

Explanatory notes: c1arinet in Bb (or Eb) (el.) : fluttertongue

gradually to fluttertongue

gradually to normal tone a..l.',-

air tone, written pitch heard. actual sounding dynarnic given.

find a klangfarbe between

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:warm and shadow-like.

gradual change of klangfarbe

suggested place for re-take of breathe.

note: The first 2 sections of the piece were composed with the sound of the Eb darinet in mind. The piece may therefore be performed on either the Eb or the Bb darinet.When deciding important considerations are: extremely ferocious quality of tone associated with Eb d. of Eb prime dynarnic contrast high and loud eg: hard sJfrc:::::::..JJ; to aehie~e on d. importance Ebel.specialists may combine these qualities! if not ord. el. in Bb is satisfaetory.

bassoon (Bsn): needs a mute

fluttertongue air tone, written piteh heard. actual sounding dynarnie given.

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very loud, brutal and raw.

multiphonic on given fundemental. overtone. allow beats through.

] when in braekets the fundemental is silent.

multiphonic tongueslap. "noise"!, fundemental heard if possible.

note: p.16-19 (final seetion). a different reed and a niekel and silver crook may best suit the low Find about 10 different fingerings of C;Cr.

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tones.

Create a wide range of klangfarbene.g: dose E-hole = darker, then a further 4 fingerings are possible with LH thumb. Pitehes will vary rnierotonally. Choose a chain of different C¡i:¡s for each gesture. Please bear the following in mind: this is a (subtle) melodic line. lyrieal and expressive. Melt into the VC/Cb/Bsn palette. The upper oetave is obtained by overblowing and is part of the legato line.

cello and double bass (Ve and Cb.) : need mutes. Cb has 5 strings. vib.pube vibrato on start of note, then subito non vibrato, unless otherwise stated.

sul tasto

SP

sul ponticello. written tone still audible. still SP colouring but actual tone heard more clearly.

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sul pon t extreme: to bring out overtones. when pp/ppp play f;t4Lé~" overtones domina te sound completely. when F/FF sound tends towards distornon. lots of bow pressure.

artificial harmonicalways

sounds 2 8ves higher fuan stopped tone.

natural harmonic maximum pressure between string and bow: a short, heavy, 'noise' stroke, deep in fue string. fuen release.

a 'noise' accent as above to start fue note, like a 'marcato extreme' articula non, Always after accent: sub.ord.

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ba.tr:

col legno baltuto: 1/2 hair, 1/2 wood, battuto with the hair of the bow lllil very heavily ,making wood of bow strike the fingerboard. very loose RH armo loud and percussive,

long gliss is measured. arrival tone given in brackets,

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the open strings microtonal trill

floating. sullasto bow stroke.

please note: p.13 - 19 Vc and Cb. ('""

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ra te oí pulsation between stopped tone an~~op:~

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freely change bows (silenlly), mostly SUI tasto. --Since open strings (Vc III and Cb n resonale naturally, play more on fue stopped string, focusing in on the changing pitches aJ)d beats.

double bass only:

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de-tune Vfu string. no tone - string buzzes/pulses. de-tune lo a pitched lone. - '!"t ~ r~-tune Vth string to normal turung_

note: in fue score

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and fue Cb parl treble def is al sounding pitch.

in fue score p.16 -19 the bass defis at sounding pitch~.

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Piano: Wifu 3rd pedal (sostenuto pedal). Pianist plays from fue score. Open piano lid fully (but do nol remove), remove music stand and eifuer place further back on fue frame, placing A3 score on some kind of hardboard, or place A4 score before you. Performer needs a plectrum. 1 suggest using stickers to mark the tones inside the piano.

silently depress keys and hold down with 3rd pedal.

silently depress keys and hold down wifu left hand.

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pedal acHon 'attack' sFF.Stamp foot down. big pool of resonance. a chromatic cluster, outer tones inclusive.

a cluster without the black keys.

also chromatic cluster, exact tones not important, as many as possible.

leave palm on strings therefore damping sound.

hit the strings 'staccatto' allowing resonance through.

·muted'. One hand plays tone on the keys, other hand stops string by bridge or (with higher tones) directly behind the dampers.

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written tone heard Either 1. 2. 'í.•..•••J - (Eorhigh tones) a percussive attack, but actual written pitch still heard.

t play tones on the strings inside the piano. specifies how the tone should be played~ gliss from highest tone possible.

scratch length of strings with nails towards the body. (Slow moHon pp, fast moHon louder.)

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d• note: pl6-18 are notated freely, with cues at the start and during each gesture. determine the shape using the visual layout. free, expressive and lyrical. the piano line is suspended above the low G mo.

the melodic line around the following tones is most most impúrtant.

Pereussion (pere.) :

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'knives':

choose 2 pieces of metal. strlke along the length of each other in the manner of sharpening knives. a high, icey and white sound. very loud and, if possible, a full and resonant sound. for first performance we used a Iar~ hand held sickle (for cutting long grass etc.).

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single stroke crescendo along length of metal

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rub back and forth at giveh pulse keeping contact throughout.

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alann: a loud fast trillo a press button door bell mounted on metal for a loud whistle: football whistle which trills loudly. high woodblock bass drurn: natural skin. In addition needs a towel to damp the skin; f) snare drurn::

with and without snare. in

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and shocking dynamic (aJways FF).

choose 3 contrasting colours loud and dry. (side of drum (metal) ~

played with chopsticks a long double bass string to make the very long ppp tone possible.

lion's roar: use

c. o e unpitched, thick-rirnmed .medium and low medium range. 1 have left the finer details oi many klangfarbes, in the context of each texture up tot he individual performer. Actual sounds and resonances depend alot on the acoustic and size oi concert space.

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microtonal adjustrnent. crescendo (unaccented) from nothing

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decrescendo to silence líes between the pitches.

glissando between the 2 notated pitches. accents are always as biting and marcato as possible, extreme contrast between "O and

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o always secco and abrupt end of tone.

bowstop (strings)

"secco" or stop resonance (harp itongue-stop (winds and brass)

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and percussion)

normal note Le previous 'effect' is cancelled.

note on vibrato: assume no vibrato unless otherwise stated: expressive vibrato to colour tone if approbriate poco vibrato just a little vibrato to colour tone. Vib. "ordinary" vibrato vibrato extreme, to as wide as possible.

General: Within each texture the dynarnic levels are relative, so the soloists should seek to balance the levels, perhaps keeping in mind that each separate gesture is built out ..of a shared palette of kIangfarbe. Dynarnics written provide an ideal but are not apsolute. Contrasts of dynamic, klangfarbe and articulation should be as extreme as possible.

Duration:

ca.13 minutes

Seating: Bsn.

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; lnto the Blue, composed in 1996, was commissioned by the Baden-Wiirttemberg Ministry ofScience and Arts. The first performance was given by the Ensemble Aventure, conducted by Christian Hommel, on 23 June 1996 in Freiburg, Germany.

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