Piccolo Peculiarities
Nicholas Underhill
About this work:
this piece was composed in 1995 with Mary Kay Fink. The first movement, Fugue has a whimsical subject littered with trills. It builds on overlays of texture, eventually culminating in bombastic, screeching sections. It ends quietly with a tongue stop. Bic Bird gets its name from the insertion of a ball point pen into the piccolo to produce a wow-wow effect. Mary Kay wrote the flute part in this movement,. using her expertise in multiphonics and other far-out sound acquired from her study with Robert Dick. It also features the use of a skewer, a tuning mute and a bottleneck inside the piano. An American in Persia, the last movement combines arabic-sounding tunes with an American-like March, colliding in the middle of the piece in two different keys. A snare-drum effect is created by the damping of the lower piano strings with aluminum foil. Composed in between the two gulf wars, it has no particular political message.
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Version: Piccolo and Piano
Year composed: 1995
Duration: 00:00:10
Ensemble type: Unspecified Instrument(s):Ensemble
Instrumentation:
Instrumentation notes: Piccolo, Piano