Tenacious Turns
Jane Brockman
About this work:
After a lifetime of writing nontonal music, I am presently concerned with exploring the kinkier regions of tonality. The turn, a baroque ornament which encircles a particular pitch, governs the small and large-scale aspects of this piece. In terms of large-scale structure, this can produce some very strange ways of approaching closely related tonal centers. Emotionally, (I hope) the result produces an exotic yet somehow deeply familiar listening experience.(JB) The piece includes a prerecorded CD and employs a pitch to MIDI converter, the PitchRider, which allows the clarinet real-time control of an additional synthesizer. A pick-up microphone in the clarinet is also connected to reverb and delay devices. Dedicated to Douglas Masek. This is an arrangment of Tenacious Turns for Clarinet (1991)
Version: for solo saxophone player (sop. and alto) and pre-recorded electronic sounds on CD
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Duration: 00:00:00
Ensemble type: Solo instrument, non-keyboard
Instrumentation: 1 Soprano Saxophone, 1 Alto Saxophone
Instrumentation notes: solo-one player. uses both soprano and alto sax.