understated matter / Sean X. Quinn.

Format:

Musical score

Author/Creator:

X. Quinn, Sean, 2000-

Language:

Undetermined

Genre:

Notated music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (14 pages) ; A4 - US Letter

Place of Publication:

Paris : BabelScores, 2020.

System Details:

PDF

Notes:

The work explores a sense of dual forces that act and react upon each other, and how the relative mediator (the performer) indeed interacts with the score, the instrument and it's two bells, and finally how the theatre of the piece - both through actions and the position of the instrument - is transmitted to the audience. In the four sections of the piece that each explore a different facet of the manipulation of the horn - first through the use of a contra-bassoon reed to produce aggressive yet fulfilling multiphonics; then in the second and third exploring the two bells and their range of possibilities. The final section condenses the instrument down to only it's single-bell form and the mute and interacts briefly with it to express a settling within the performance. Gasping, grunting, growling and grandeur are all some of the ideas explored in this short miniature.

Publisher Number:

979-0-2325-4452-6

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.