Thorvaldsdottir TRANSITIONS

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Thorvaldsdottir, Anna Transitions

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Written for Michael Nicolas.

Duration: c. 11 minutes

Performance Note The theme of the work is ‘man & machine’, as commissioned by Michael Nicolas.

The theme is represented in that the cellist becomes both in the piece – man & machine – where man indicates performing expressively with emotion, and a musical approach to the music, and machine indicates more precise rhythmic and technical accuracy, a somewhat stricter approach to the music.

These two approaches gradually transition from one to another throughout the work. man machine Transition naturally between states of ‘man’ and ‘machine’.

Man indicates extra musical approach with expressive and somewhat free-flowing time.

Machine indicates precision with a stricter approach to the material.

A symbol indicates the start of the respective approach, and is in effect until the other symbol appears.

Notation Abbreviations l.b.pr. f.pr. s.p. ord. m. w.

light bow pressure for an airy effect finger pressure sul ponticello takes back all special effects/performing techniques, including (but not limited to) sul pont., light bow pressure etc. much with

Techniques When pitches are sustained/slurred through an extended period of time, breathe/bow as necessary, not synchronised.

Former effect/sound/technique/indication gradually becomes the following one.

Slow quarter tone glissando/vibrato.

All glissandos should be played/sung throughout the duration of the note value it is written by. For example, , slow glissando that at the beginning of the note and glissandos throughout the four beats of the note value. Similar with + , faster glissando (depending on the destination of the following pitch).

B I Ă‘D Ă‘Â

Quarter tone flat Quarter tone flat below Quarter tone sharp Quarter tone sharp above E Place left hand (not only one finger) lightly on indicated string, around given pitch area, not on harmonic. Fingers are not to be placed on exact pitches. This produces an un-pitched airy sound. The lower small note head indicates the open string to be performed on, the upper note head indicates the approximate position of the hand. When the note ( p head is indicated with a glissando, move hand up or down the string as indicated (this will produce various harmonic colors to the airy sound as hand glissandos over the string/s), for example:

When these note heads are indicated with ord., it refers to playing ordinary on the written effect and merely serves to take back indication of otherwise performing such as with sul pont., much bow pressure etc.

Three tremolo lines refer to playing quick tremolo notes but not to rhythmic 32nd notes.

Hit with fingers on the strings for subtle percussive effect without playing with the bow on the strings, and without pizzicato. Produces a subtle percussive effect of the fingers hitting the fingerboard. mute & pizz with fingernail: mute string with finger/hand and sharply pizz. with fingernail in a tiny movement very close to the muted point, for a rhythmic, un-pitched crackling sound. This should result in low resonance rhythmic attacks.

Transitions

Anna Thorvaldsdottir

q = 40

4 4

gliss.

pp

mf

pp

mute string sharply pizz. with fingernail

6

arco

g lis s.

mp

p

non-concentrated sound with harmonics coming through very l.b.pr. gliss.

mp

mp

p

11

gliss.

s.p. - l.f. & b.pr.

16

s.p. - ord. b.pr. no pitch

4 4

g li s mp

mp

ppp

mp

s.p. - l.f. & b.pr.

23

p

s.p. - l.f. & b.pr.

gliss.

2 4

4 4

ord

s.

mute & pizz with fingernail

20

gliss.

p

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p

mp

pp

arco l.f. & b.pr.

ord. (b.pr. & senza s.p.)

p

mp

ord.

mp

mp

s.p. - l.f. & b.pr.

p

pp