Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen
Seven Audio Plays (2009) for clarinet, trombone, percussion, piano, violoncello and double bass
Dur. 25′
To the memory of Dorothea Kehrwieder (* 17.4.1964 · † 3.3. 2009)
Written for Ensemble Black Hair
SCORE
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INSTRUMENTATION
Clarinet in Bb (doubling clarinet in Eb and bass clarinet in Bb)
Trombone (doubling bass trombone)
Percussion
Lions roar
bass drum
hammer on a wooden table (loud bang) crotales (1 octave)
suspended cymbal car horn (old fashioned, good quality!)
3 iron or tin buckets on a table, tubular bell (d’’)
5 temple blocks slide whistle
plunger on a smooth solid surface
bottle cork (important: cork NOT on a stick but on a string)
5 high quality bird whistles (may include cuckoo) marimba
Piano
Remove the board above the keyboard, revealing jacks and let-off buttons of the piano action. This procedure is absolutely safe and has been approved by a Steinway technician. Further instructions in the score about how to use the fillet and the plectrums, which come with the hire material ⦶ : damp the string with one hand inside the instrument, play the note on the keyboard cello, double bass: damp the string with several fingers to avoid any harmonics. Sound: noise
Violoncello
Double bass, 5 stringed
Further specific instructions in the score and parts
Seven Audio Plays
Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen 2009
sweep the buckets off the table with the shaft of a broom. After the last bucket hits the ground (regardless of the notated placement in the score):
gliss.
5. Tombeau II
