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Daniel Kessner
Bassflöte (Music in Uncommon Modes, for shakuhachi, quarter-tone bass flute, and guitar)
UES102606-214
Type: Stimme
Format: 210 x 297 mm
Pages: 20
Description
In this work, the composer explores the most exotic and obscure combination of instruments of his entire career. It is also among his most intensely microtonal works. The Japanese bamboo flute, the shakuhachi, was created to favor microtonal alterations; the bass flute required is a specially built instrument with the capability of playing quarter-tones throughout nearly its entire register (the most common being the Kingma System instrument); the guitar must be re-tuned, with one string a quarter-tone lower than normal.
It was written for the British ensemble rarescale, with a reference to its name inscribed into the title: uncommon mode = rare scale.
The guitar tuning (from lowest to highest) is: low D, A, D, G, B-quarter-tone flat, D.
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Type: Stimme
Format: 210 x 297 mm
Pages: 20