I wrote a piece entitled I'll Get It In My Lunch in 1981 for double woodwind quintet in which a single note played by 1 instrument is echoed rhythmically by its duplicate situated on the opposite side of the room. The pattern rotates from low to high -- i.e. Bassoon 1/Bassoon 2 then FH1/FH2 --Cl1/Cl2 etc. and the piece premutates from that basis. The purpose was to put as much space as possible between the 2 quintets and then between the instruments within the 2 groups. A veritgo effect is thereby acheived where the musical line fuses but the space confounds the effect.
Jerry Gerald Berg ________________________________ From: dershem <ders...@cox.net> To: finale list <finale@shsu.edu> Sent: Tue, August 17, 2010 11:30:09 PM Subject: [Finale] Non-linear melodies I was recently given a copy of Willie Maiden's "Kaleidoscope". It is ... unique. No one part has the melody line. It's all just notes spread across the band in varying rhythms, and you have to have the whole band playing in precise rhythm to allow the audience to be able to hear the melody sneaking through. Kenton recorded it. Are any of you familiar with it? Have any of you experimented with the idea of "note 1 goes here, note 2 goes to a different players, etc."? cd -- http://members.cox.net/dershem/index.html http://dershem.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
