Francesco Filidei

Ballata n.2
For Ensemble

Commissioned by Music At The Anthology, Inc. For the 2012

MATA festival of New York

Instruments:
Flute in C, Alto Flute
And : Mouthpiece in C alone.

Oboe

And : Bubble Wrap (for popping sound), Gelinotte souffl (Grouse or other very high blowed bird call), Reed alone.

Clarinet in Bb

And : Bubble Wrap (for popping sound).

Bassoon

And : Buzzing Bow (Schwirrbogen, double is also good), Merle souffl (Blackbird blowed bird call or other breatly-sound bird
call), Reed alone.

Horn

And : Corrugated conduit 1.5 x 150 cm ca. (It must be not the split longitudinally cutted model).

Trumpet in Bb
With : WaWa Mute, CD Mute (use a dummy clear polycarbonate disc with no recording surface like the one present in CD
splindles).
And : Rossignol manuel (Nightingale manual call or other bird rosin friction sound), Rattle (Raganella).

Trombone
With : WaWa Mute.
And : Harmonica Bb (covered with cloth in order to obtain only very high partials), Chevalier (Tringa, manual bird call with short
little sounds).

Piano
With : Metal bar (for ex. using a Triangle) and Glass Weight.
And Tuyau Harmonique, Small Waldteufel, Canard Souffll (Duck blowed bird call or other similar reed-like sound bird call)

I Violin
II Violin
With : 2 Small hairclips (to fix on III and IV string).

Alto

With : 2 Small hairclips (to fix on II and III string).

Cello
With : Small hairclip (to fix on II string).

Doublebass
V strings, christal glass in D and F (tuned with water inside).

THE SCORE IS NOT TRANSPOSED

For Buzzing Bow : www.schwirrholz-schwirrbogen.de

For Bird Calls and Tuyau Harmonique: www.fuzeau.com

Instructions :

Flute
Whistle Tones, nearly without blowing, buzzing free sounds (Whistle tones) on the indicated fundamental.

Trill on the same note with different positions.

Tremolo on the same note with different fundamentals.

Natural Multiphonic, (Harmonics Cluster).

Jet Whistle.

Note with small glissando up or down.

Approximative pitch with small glissando, alterate the sound with voice, growl etc.
Mouthpiece alone, glissando with a finger inside the embouchure.

Multiphonics :
C Flute

breathly sound

G Flute

breathly sound

Natural Multiphonics (1 2 3 4
23 45n)

breathly sound

Oboe
Bisbigliando, trill with right hand on the high keys of the trill, while the left hand change pitches.

Tremolo on the same note with different fundamentals.

Reed alone, with small glissando up or down starting from different pitches as indicated.

Tongue ram.

Multiphonics :

Random rarefied popping sounds on a Bubble Wrap.

Bird call, very high pitch glissando as indicated.

Clarinet
Bisbigliando, trill with right hand on the high keys of the trill, while the left hand change pitches.
Tremolo on the same note with different fundamentals.

Natural Multiphonic, (Harmonics Cluster), harmonics played as one block with a lot of lips pression.

Teeth on reed, very high squeaking sound.

Note with small glissando up or down.

Approximative pitch with small glissando, alterate the sound with voice, growl etc.

Multiphonics :

breathly sound

breathly sound

breathly sound

breathly sound

Random rarefied popping sounds on a Bubble Wrap.

Bassoon
Bisbigliando, trill with right hand on the high keys of the trill, while the left hand change pitches.

Tremolo on the same note with different fundamentals.

Reed alone, with small glissando up or down starting from different pitches as indicated.

Tongue ram.
Multiphonics :

Buzzing Bow, rotate in the air.

Bird call, breathly sound.

Horn
Breath only inside the instrument.

Approximative pitch with small glissando, alterate the sound with voice, growl etc.
Kiss on the mouthpiece, low, high.
Heavy harmonics glissando, like an elephant.

Mouthpiece only, glissando on indicated notes.

Breath inside the corrugated conduit.
Jet Whistle with the corrugated conduit, strong glissando with partials up and down.

Trumpet
Breath only inside the instrument.

Dummy clear polycarbonate disc, use like a sordine, the sound is a sort of breath-only flatterzunge.
Approximative pitch with small glissando, alterate the sound with voice, growl etc.
Kiss on the mouthpiece, low, high.
Heavy harmonics glissando, like an elephant.

Mouthpiece only, glissando on indicated notes.

Manual bird call (Nightingale), continuosly turning the lever.
Turning the Rattle (Raganella), very fast.

Trombone
Breath only inside the instrument.

Approximative pitch with small glissando, alterate the sound with voice, growl etc.
Kiss on the mouthpiece, low, high.
Heavy harmonics glissando, like an elephant.

Mouthpiece only, glissando on indicated notes.

Harmonica, covered with cloth in order to obtain only very high partials, breath trought the cloth.
Chevalier manuel, bird call (Tringa, manual bird call, short little sounds obtained shaking the
instrument).

Piano
Pizz. on the indicated string inside tbe piano.
Metal bar (ex. triangle, or also glass wide bell in crystal) alone in glissando with pression on strings
(medium register) inside piano in order to obtain high partials, up and down.
Glass Weight on strings in glissando with pression, up and down .

Glissando on the indicate string with a fingernail inside the piano.

Metal bar on tuning pegs in glissando, metal pegs percussion noises.

Rotate the corrugated conduit on the air in order to obtain the lower partials.

Rotate the waldteufel on the air.

Only small mouvements with the stick.

Canard Souffll (Duck blowed bird call or other similar reed-like sound bird call), breath inside.

Strings
ST

Sul Tasto.

AST

Alto sul Tasto.

SP

Sul Ponticello.

ASP
N

Alto sul Ponticello.

Normal position.
String with hairclip.
Spazzolato, brushing up and down with bow.
Glissando.

Approximative pitch with small glissando, exaggerated pression with bow, almost noise.

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Francesco Filidei

Ballata n.2

Moderato q = 100 ca.

G Flute
Flute

Oboe

Clarinet B b

Whistle Tones.

Horn

Trumpet B b

Bubble Wrap Very rarefied pops.

4
4

Trombone

Piano

Corrugated Conduit

Harmonica Bb Covered with cloth, to obtain only very high partials.

5
4

.
b
e
P
d

Pizz. inside the Piano.

Violin I

Violin II

4 b
5

4
4

With small hairclip on

the III and IV strings.

Viola

With small hairclip on

the II and III strings.

Cello

Doublebass
V Strings

d
d

5
4

Buzzing Bow

Bassoon

a Toshio Hosokawa
con stima e riconoscenza

(w

ST

II

b
b ww

b .

Pizz. ST

Arco ASP

Arco
Glass D

ASP

5
Fl.

Ob.

4
4
Gelinotte

Cl.

Bs.

Hrn.

5
4

CD Mute.

Trp.

Tbn.

Pno.

...

4
4

7
8

Corrugated Conduit

5
4

W.T.

Metal bar alone in glissando with pression on strings inside the piano.

kkkkk

h.

kkkkk

kkkkk

()

5 .

nbnb 4 .

Vln. I

Vln. II

Vla.

Cllo.

Dbs.

e
e
c

d
d

SP

7
8

ST

III

b ..
b ..

3

ASP

7
8

ST

III
IV

Arco SP

III
IV

Pizz. ST

b .

Arco
Glass F

.

3

w
w

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Fl.

Ob.

Bs.

3
4
.

Cl.

Hrn.

7
8

4
4

7
8

3
4

4
4

Pno.

Vln. I

Vln. II

Vla.

Cllo.

Dbs.

e
e
c

mmmmm ..
..

kkkkk

3
4

SP

.
.. .

d
e

kkkkk ..
..

7
8

.
.. .

kkkkk ..
..

e
e

Harmonica Bb
Tbn.

W.T.

Bubble Wrap

CD Mute.

Trp.

b 4

ST

ST

b .

Pizz. ST

( .

# .

Arco
Glass D

13
Fl.

Ob.

Pno.

e
e

3
4

Corrugated Conduit

4
4

Bs.

Tbn.

Trp.

Cl.

Hrn.

3
4

4
4

.
.

CD Mute.

...

...
p

d
h

()
3

n b n - b
Vln. I

Vln. II

e
e

SP

Vla.

d #

ASP

Cllo.

Dbs.

8:6

.)

.
q

4
4

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4

17
Fl.

e
e

Cl.

Bs.

Hrn.

4
4

Tbn.

e
e

kkkkk

Vln. II

Cllo.

Dbs.

c
d

kkkkk

ASP

Pizz. ST
d b
.

kkkkk

mmmmm ..
..

3
4

7
8

kkkkk

ST

ST

.
III
.. .

IV

3

ASP

Vla.

()
4

7
8

Corrugated Conduit

3
4

Vln. I

7
8

Trp.

Pno.

Gelinotte
Ob.

W.T.

Arco
Glass F

3
4
.

w
w

.
.. .

21
Fl.

Ob.

Bs.

4
4

3
4

4
4

.
.

Tbn.

Pno.

Vln. I

Vln. II

Vla.

Cllo.

Dbs.

kkkkk ..
..

e
e
c
d
d

Bubble Wrap

kkkkk ..
..

Corrugated Conduit

4
SP

.
.. .

ST

ST

b .

Pizz. ST

3
4

4 b

3
4

3
4

.
Harmonica Bb

CD Mute.

Trp.

W.T.

Cl.

Hrn.

3
4

SP

( .

# .

Arco
Glass D

ASP

3
4

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4

25
Fl.

Ob.

e
e

Cl.

Bs.

Hrn.

4
4
Gelinotte

4
4

.
.

Tbn.

Pno.

Vln. I

Vln. II

Vla.

Cllo.

Dbs.

e
e

e
c
d
e

q
()
3
n b n b

.)

kkkkk

kkkkk

4
.

ST

kkkkk

...

CD Mute.

Trp.

W.T.

3
4

SP

b ..
b ..

3

ASP

ST

III
IV

ASP

w
w

Pizz. ST

b .

Arco
Glass F

29
Fl.

Ob.

Cl.

Bs.

e
e

3
4

Trp.

Bubble Wrap

3
4

4
4

Pno.

Vln. I

Vln. II

Vla.

Cllo.

Dbs.

kkkkk ..
..

3
4

.
.. .

d
e

kkkkk ..
..

.
.. .

q

4
b

ST

c ww

kkkkk ..
..

e
e kkkk
k

CD Mute.

Harmonica Bb
Tbn.

W.T.

Corrugated Conduit

Hrn.

4
4

ST

b .

Pizz. ST

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Fl.

Ob.

5
4

2
4

Cl.

Bs.

Hrn.

Trp.

Tbn.

Pno.

Vln. I

Vln. II

Vla.

Cllo.

e
e

5
4

Corrugated Conduit

4
4

2
4

4
4

CD Mute.

...

d
h
()

b
2

4
4

e
3:2
3:2
p

3 .
w
.

)
(
e
# .

SP

# .

ASP

.
e
3

Arco
Glass D

Dbs.

4
4

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37
Fl.

Gelinotte
Ob.

Cl.

Bs.

Hrn.

4
4

W.T.

4
4

Tbn.

kkkkk

3
4
.

5
8

3
4

Trp.

Pno.

3
4

5
8

Corrugated Conduit

mmmmm ..
..

mmmmm

3
4

kkkkk ..
..

kkkkk

q q.
q.
q
()

4
3 .
5 .
n b.

Vln. I

Vln. II

e
e

ST

SP

.
III
.. .

IV

3

ASP

Vla.

Cllo.

Dbs.

c
d

ST

ASP

Pizz. ST
d b
.

Arco
Glass F

.

3

p
.

.
.. .

.
.. .

3
4

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Fl.

Ob.

Cl.

Bs.

Hrn.

Trp.

Tbn.

Pno.

Vln. I

Vln. II

Vla.

Cllo.

Dbs.

3
4

11

4
3
~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Bisbligliando

Bubble Wrap

.
.

kkkkk ..
..

d
d

3
4

()
3 .

F
ST

.
.. .

F
F

@
.

+ simile...

(Almost nothing)

4
4

!
3
3

ST

3
4

Col legno.

!
3

SP

Arco
ST

Glass Weight on strings in glissando with pression.

Brushing
ASP/AST

I
II

.
kkkkk ..
..

+ simile...

WaWa +
3

WaWa +
3

(Almost nothing)

4
4

# .

3
4

IV
III

#ST
3

!
3

..

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4
3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

45
Fl.

Ob.

e
3
e
e

Bs.

Trp.

Pno.

Vln. I

Vln. II

Vla.

Cllo.

Dbs.

Horn

4
4

WaWa +
3

e
.

Bisbligliando
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3

w
.

Breath only

Tbn.

Cl.

Hrn.

WaWa +
3

3
4

.
p

+ simile...
3

+ simile...
3

Breath only

d
d

..

SP

3
4

ST

Arco ST

e
c

4
4

3
SP

ST Remove hairclip from II string.

Brushing
ASP/AST

!
3

Pizz. ST

Col legno.

..

ST

IV
III

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Fl.

Ob.

Cl.

Bs.

Hrn.

Trp.

Tbn.

Pno.

Vln. I

Vln. II

Vla.

Cllo.

Dbs.

~~~~~~~~~~~~
.

4
4

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
w
w

3
4

4
4

WaWa +
3

WaWa +
3

3
4
@

+ simile...

@
w

+ simile...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

e
.
p
.

13

.
p

4
4

d!

Brushing
ASP/AST

I
II

e .

..

SP

!
3
3

ST

Arco ST

SP

ST

ST

3
4

Col legno.

# ..
ST

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

3
P
p3

53
Fl.

Ob.

Cl.

Bs.

Hrn.

Trp.

Pno.

Vln. I

Vln. II

Vla.

Cllo.

Dbs.

4
4

3
4

WaWa +
3

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

.
.

WaWa +
3

Breath only

Tbn.

4
3
4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4

+ simile...

+ simile...

e !3

3
4

ST

..

SP

!
3

Pizz. ST

3
SP

ST

Brushing
ASP/AST

..

4
4

ST

Remove hairclip from III string.

e
c

Col legno.

IV
III

ST

..

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4

57
Fl.

Ob.

Cl.

Bs.

Hrn.

Trp.

e
e

Pno.

Vln. I

Vln. II

Vla.

Cllo.

Dbs.

.
p
d

3
4

WaWa +
3

e
e

4
4

WaWa +
3

.
p

+ simile...

(Almost nothing)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.
.
.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3
e .

.
p
P

Breath only

Tbn.

3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4

15

@
.

+ simile...

(Almost nothing)

4
4

d!

..

SP

ST

Brushing
ASP/AST

I
II

e .

Arco ST

3
4

Col legno.

SP

ST

ST

# ..
ST

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61
Fl.

Ob.

4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4

Cl.

Bs.

Hrn.

Trp.

Pno.

Vln. I

Vln. II

Vla.

Cllo.

Dbs.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.

4
4

WaWa +
3

e
.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3

.
.
w
.
P

Breath only

Tbn.

3
4

WaWa +
3

3
4

+ simile...

Breath only

+ simile...

.
p

d
d

..

SP

Brushing
ASP/AST

!
3

Pizz. ST

Col legno.

!
3

ST

3
4

SP

ST

ST

Arco ST

e
c

4
4

IV
III

!
3

..

..