From d765823755fe4b796f13195d7fb510d72eac0ef5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tucker johnson Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 20:44:20 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] two pages --- net-clarity.ly => choruses.ly | 35 +++++++------ general/aliases.ly | 3 ++ manuscripts/altoSaxophone.ly | 92 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 3 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) rename net-clarity.ly => choruses.ly (85%) diff --git a/net-clarity.ly b/choruses.ly similarity index 85% rename from net-clarity.ly rename to choruses.ly index 06e83c6..2e7ee3f 100644 --- a/net-clarity.ly +++ b/choruses.ly @@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ \include "general/scripts.ly" \include "general/umbel.ly" -clarinetFont = #-2 -clarinetMagstep = #(magstep -2) +fingeringSize = #'(size . 0.6) \paper { line-width = 120 @@ -23,7 +22,7 @@ clarinetMagstep = #(magstep -2) short-indent = 0\cm #(define fonts (set-global-fonts #:music "scorlatti" #:brace "scorlatti" #:roman "Junicode" #:sans "syne")) max-systems-per-page = #10 - system-system-spacing = #'((basic-distance . 10) (minimum-distance . 8) (padding . 12)) + system-system-spacing = #'((basic-distance . 10) (minimum-distance . 8) (padding . 9)) score-system-spacing = #'((basic-distance . 2) (minimum-distance . 1) (padding . 0)) last-bottom-spacing = #'((basic-distance . 5) (minimum-distance . 5) (padding . 0)) tocTitleMarkup = \markup { \hbracket \sans \bold " contents " } @@ -177,17 +176,20 @@ clarinetMagstep = #(magstep -2) \center-column { \override #'(line-width . 100) \justify { - I was struck by the idea of writing \bold "Net Clarity" while listening - to my partner, Amber Lucas, practice one of the Reger clarinet sonatas. - The work extends a technical approach I employed to compose short - keyboard inventions in my recent piece Circumnutation and explores - further the structural potentialities of the diatonic set (equivalent to - the major scale) and its relationship to the aggregate (the collection of - all 12 notes). These (my) technical proclivities notwithstanding, \bold - "Net Clarity" also indulges in the diatonic set as a referential - collection \char #8211 hinting at other music, without necessarily - quoting. Because of its design, the work creates the sensation of a hazy - memory \char #8211 remembering music with varying levels of clarity. + Underlying \bold "Choruses" is a cyclic harmonic structure who's + features and intervals influence its ever-changing, + improvisation-like surface. The musical surface recasts this + underlying structure during the 29 repetitions that make up the + work \char #8211 29 "\"choruses\"" that present many allusions to + Jazz and Free Jazz. The initial version of \bold "Choruses" was + completed during one of the latter covid lock-downs as a work for + unaccompanied alto saxophone. This new version, created for + Floris Van der Veken, incorporates an ambisonic, electroacoustic + component: a geometric, resonant expression of the work's + structure that transforms and interacts with the soloist. I want + to dedicate this work to Tampa Bay saxophonist David Pate, who's + tremendous impact on my early musical life resonates far beyond + then. } } \vspace #3 @@ -210,9 +212,6 @@ clarinetMagstep = #(magstep -2) } \pageBreak - \header { - tagline = "test" - } \bookpart { \header { @@ -230,7 +229,7 @@ clarinetMagstep = #(magstep -2) \context { \Score \override RehearsalMark.break-visibility = #begin-of-line-invisible - \override SpacingSpanner.base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1/8) + \override SpacingSpanner.base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1/20) \override Hairpin.to-barline = ##f } } diff --git a/general/aliases.ly b/general/aliases.ly index d116780..98479a8 100644 --- a/general/aliases.ly +++ b/general/aliases.ly @@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ sD = \stemDown sU = \stemUp sN = \stemNeutral +rTT = \set stemRightBeamCount = 2 +lTT = \set stemLeftBeamCount = 2 + ffsempre = #(make-dynamic-script (markup #:combine #:transparent "f" "ff" #:combine #:transparent "f" #:normal-text #:italic "sempre" ) ) diff --git a/manuscripts/altoSaxophone.ly b/manuscripts/altoSaxophone.ly index 48cfb24..6f231fe 100644 --- a/manuscripts/altoSaxophone.ly +++ b/manuscripts/altoSaxophone.ly @@ -1,23 +1,93 @@ -% root = ../net-clarity.ly +% root = ../choruses.ly \new Staff \with { - instrumentName = \markup { clarinet in \concat { \bold "B" \tiny \flat " " } } - shortInstrumentName = \markup { cl } + instrumentName = \markup { + \right-column { + \line { "alto saxophone " } + \line { in \concat { \bold "E" \tiny \flat " " } } + } + } \override DynamicLineSpanner.staff-padding = \sods - fontSize = \clarinetFont - \override StaffSymbol.staff-space = \clarinetMagstep \consists Text_mark_engraver } -\transpose bes c' \relative { \compressEmptyMeasures \numericTimeSignature \clef treble - \tempo "Allegro energico" 4=104 - \time 5/4 R1*5/4 | %001 - \time 4/4 R1*5 - \time 5/4 R1*5/4 | - \time 4/4 R1*13 | + \tempo "Poco rubato" 4=100 + \time 4/4 + a''32(\f\> fis e \rTT ees \lTT d c a16 d, e fis) e(\mp\< g fis' gis e g) gis32( \rTT a \lTT b c e fis + g gis)\ff r8. r4 r4 r16 ees,16-.\p fis,-. c'-. + b,-. r8. 8 \offset Y-offset 5 ^\markup { + \center-column { \override #'(graphical . #f) \override \fingeringSize + \woodwind-diagram + #'saxophone + #'((cc . (two three five)) (lh . ()) (rh . (c))) + } + } + b,16-. g''-. des,-. ges'-. r8 r8 fis16-. g,-. + f'-. d'-. 8 \offset Y-offset 5 ^\markup { + \center-column { \override #'(graphical . #f) \override \fingeringSize + \woodwind-diagram + #'saxophone + #'((cc . (two three five)) (lh . (f)) (rh . ())) + } + } + r4 r4 r8 des,,16-. g'-. | + \time 3/4 ges-. aes,-. r8 r4 r8 aes''16-. fis,-. | + g-. e'-. r8 r4 r4 | + \time 4/4 r16 c,16(\f\> b d g, c b d g,)\p g'(\f\> des fis, c g'' des fis, | + c g'')\p e,-.\mf d-. a''-. fis-. des(\p\< fis, c g'' des fis, c)\f fis-.\mf c''-. b,-. | + d'8-- r8 \tuplet 3/2 { g8(\mp fis4) } fis,8.( c'16) b8( a) | + \time 3/16 d,,16[-. a''-. ges,]-. | + \time 3/4 f'2~ f8 r8 + \time 4/4 r16 bes8.~\pp bes4~ bes8 r8 r8. f16-.\mp | + bes,,-. b''! g8~( \tuplet 3/2 { g4 cis8 } cis8) g16-. ges,-. aes'-. ees,-. r8 | + \time 3/8 des'4. | + \time 4/4 \tuplet 3/2 { ges4\< c,4 b' } \tuplet 3/2 { b g' cis,~\f } | + \time 5/8 cis4 a'4. | + \time 3/16 r16 ges,,8\mp | + \time 4/4 aes'8 ges c,4 \breathe g''4~(\< g8 \tuplet 3/2 { cis,16 a dis,-.)\f } | + r8 8 \offset Y-offset 5 ^\markup { + \center-column { \override #'(graphical . #f) \override \fingeringSize + \woodwind-diagram + #'saxophone + #'((cc . (two three five)) (lh . ()) (rh . (c))) + } + } + b4~\mp b8 g8~ g16 8.~ \offset Y-offset 5 ^\markup { + \center-column { \override #'(graphical . #f) \override \fingeringSize + \woodwind-diagram + #'saxophone + #'((cc . (one two three four five six)) (lh . (b)) (rh . (c ees))) + } + } + \time 2/4 16 r16 cis4 \tuplet 3/2 { cis'16(\< a' f' } + \time 3/8 ges16)-.\f 8. \offset Y-offset 5 ^\markup { + \center-column { \override #'(graphical . #f) \override \fingeringSize + \woodwind-diagram + #'saxophone + #'((cc . (two three five six)) (lh . (low-bes)) (rh . ())) + } + } + r8 | + \time 4/4 \tuplet 3/2 { fis,,4 gis'8( } \tuplet 3/2 { dis4) b'8( } 8) \offset Y-offset 5 ^\markup { + \center-column { \override #'(graphical . #f) \override \fingeringSize + \woodwind-diagram + #'saxophone + #'((cc . (one two three four five)) (lh . (low-bes)) (rh . (c))) + } + } + a'4( aes16 ges ges, f8. bes,2~\> bes8)\mp r8 | + \time 3/4 b16-. g''-. cis,,-. fis'-. r4 fis16-. g,-. e'-. d'-. | + R1*3/4 | + d,,16-. g'-. fis-. e,-. r8 g16(\pp fis c' des g, fis) | + a'-.\mp fis,-. g'-. e,-. c(\pp^"subtone" des g fis c' des g fis | + c' des g) c,( b d, g\< c, b fis g c,)\mp | + \time 2/4 des4 \tuplet 3/2 { ges8( c, b) } | + \time 3/16 e16[-. d''-. a,]-. | + \time 4/4 fis'16 r8 \once \override TupletNumber.text = #tuplet-number::calc-fraction-text \tuplet 4/5 { b,,16(\f g' cis a') } + fis,-. c''-. cis,,-. d'-. r4 | } -- 2.39.5