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Performance Notes

The document provides performance notes for creating various non-pitched and experimental sounds on instruments, including instructions to gradually change the way of playing, crescendo and decrescendo while accelerating or decelerating rhythms, overblow harsh multiphonics on flutes, blow through woodwinds without pitch formation, let the bow bounce on strings or trill between normal and artificial harmonics, play strings with hair and wood of bow using glissandi, and create harsh sounds by scratching a cymbal or dragging a stick on a tam-tam.

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Performance Notes

The document provides performance notes for creating various non-pitched and experimental sounds on instruments, including instructions to gradually change the way of playing, crescendo and decrescendo while accelerating or decelerating rhythms, overblow harsh multiphonics on flutes, blow through woodwinds without pitch formation, let the bow bounce on strings or trill between normal and artificial harmonics, play strings with hair and wood of bow using glissandi, and create harsh sounds by scratching a cymbal or dragging a stick on a tam-tam.

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Performance notes

breathe in to instrument producing white noise (brasses


and woodwinds)

gradually change from one way of playing to another

crescendo al niente

diminuendo al niente

gradually accelerate starting with eight notes and ending


with thirty-second notes

gradually decelerate similarly

for all instruments: follow instructions to create various non


pitched sounds i.e. tapping instrument or pressing down
keys

quickly overblow to create a harsh and loud multiphonic


(flutes)

blow air through instrument without pitch, with consonant


indicated by [ ] (woodwinds)

let the wood of the bow bounce on the string (strings)

trill between normal finger pressure and node


finger pressure (strings)

play with the hair and wood of the bow, using circular
bowing, in a high register performing glissandi between
pitches ad lib (strings)

put the tip of the drumstick on cymbal and scratch it


creating a harsh, pitched sound (percussion)

drag Super ball stick in a circular motion across Tam-tam


(percussion)

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