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a piece of twine |

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a piece of
twine was made as an arrangement of material from twine,
reworked for a standard saxophone quartet. This short piece, which
contains only two brief sections of new material (at rehearsal figures
E and F), modifies the earlier piece, mainly through transposition.
The earlier piece’s concern with high and low are continued
here in a slightly modified form, particularly in these new sections
where unspecified very high and very low notes are notated. Unlike
the ensemble for twine, which consists of the same instrument with
the same transposition, a standard saxophone quartet contains four
different instruments each with its own transposition. This factor
is used to modify directly the material from the earlier piece in
various ways, particularly around the idea of unisons, both written
and played. As an example, at bar 7 the ensemble plays in (near) unison,
whilst at the conclusion of this material, at bar 13, it is written
as a unison, generating the chord as shown here: |
