Bend All Your Notes for Me

for chamber ensemble

Amanda Feery

Bend All Your Notes for Me A glitch is a fault, a mistake, an error, an unwanted transition. A glitch suggests that a device cannot complete its functions or perform them properly. It is a break in the event, a sign that something went wrong while you were doing something else. It is regarded as something to be avoided, and removed. I wanted to build a structure for this piece that introduced glitches. The glitches interrupt and infest the overall structure, they hack the pulse, the pitch and the instrumentation. The glitches themselves become the event, rather than the break in the event. Duration 6 20 Instrumentation Flute/Alto flute Bass Clarinet/Bb clarinet Trombone Percussion (Drum Set, Claves, and Vibraphone) Violin Cello

Performance Notes Drum Set Key

Where it is indicated to flatten pitch and add noise, please feel free to experiment. I have made some suggestions in the score, but another technique might work more effectively.

Bend All Your Notes for Me

A q = 88 4 Alto Flute & 4
Bass Clarinet in Bb

Amanda Feery 2011

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breath tones

j j

4 & 4
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Trombone

slap tongue j j > f

finger the note,

j
mp

Drum Set

j > f j > f
pizz

Vibraphone

4use bow to play intermittent scratch tones Violin & 4

mp

4 {& 4

hit strings on fingerboard with pads of fingers

Violoncello

?4 4

hit strings on fingerboard with pads of fingers use bow to play intermittent scratch tones

pizz

mp

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finger the note,

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with a little pedal, so it sounds legato, but doesn't ring out too much

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from bar 84. (woodwind, brass, and strings) gradually introduce 'noise' as you cresendo. This could be fluttertongue in woodwinds/brass, and scratch tones in the strings.
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