Hi-tech Slidings
Charlie Hearnshaw
  • concert
  • alto sax
  • clarinet in Bb
 

Hi-tech slidings

Free jazz in seven overlapping segue sections

1) low languid laborious quiet quirky trills
later trills are much wider

2) curtailed ascending scalic snippets
eventually accelerating
extending
looping and conglomerating.
always pianissimo with a late crescendo

3) running around high up in various pairs
don't go mad to start with

4) a loud low monotone [concert E or A ]
of considerable rhythmic interest

5) sporadic sounds of your favourite animals
otherwise pedal low G, D or E

6) pointilistic pianissimo staccatostratus
à la bouncing superball
as a prelude to rapid repeated descent
sempre pp

7) eventually arriving
proudly and triumphantly
at a delicate triad (concert D)
repeated diminuendo and crescendo

© copyright Charlie Hearnshaw 1999

Be sure to read the score carefully.

There are detailed instructions about dynamics and tempo which are only too easy to everlook.