Why So Serial?
(for solo French Horn)
Rich Perks
Performance Notes & Key for extended techniques:
- Improvise around: Improvise around the provided melody with little restriction.
Refer to/ Draw influence from written material but make your own.
- Build Intensity: Increase intensity of section using dynamics, note content, register etc.
- Respect time indications for improvised sections.
Bend Vibrato: Use bending to create vib (semitone below written pitch).
Lip Trill: Trill (tone above written pitch).
Bend/
Half-stopped
Bend: Produced by half-stopping with right hand.Duration of bend is open to interpretation of performer. Grace note indicates starting pitch; main note indicates resolution pitch and total duration of both pitches in bend.
Duration: Approx. 4 - 5 mins.
Flutter tounging: Very quick tremelo produced by flutter tounging.4
(q = 100 approx.)
Why so Serial? Rich Perks
Rubato / Molto espress.
p
mf f mp f p mf f
f
p
ff
Half-stopped
ppp
mf
mf
Bend/
Stopped / Cuivre
p
p
f
mf
7
f ff
Open
Poco accel.
Relative R. Inv. : Play pitches in order; open meter, open rhythm.(Rubato/ Open) x 3
mf f
Apply dynamics over the course of 3 repeats.
p
f
p
f
p
mf
f
Bend/
Half-stopped
f
p
f
ff
mf
mf
fp
ff
Choice: Improvise around any one/ any combination of these 4 improvisatory models:
Rhythmf
7
Melodic contour: any register 8
mf
Approx. 30 secs.
8
Bends e.g.
Chord/ arpeggio
p
p
Rubato A Tempo
Stopped Open
p
7
p
mf f
2
poco rit.
f
p
sf
p
f
p ff
Play as written once, then Improvise around melody, open dynamics.
Build Intensity
ff
Approx. 15 - 20 secs.
(Slow bend)
ff
mf
p
Bend/Half-stopped
p
al niente
mf
