Music Resource Item Type Metadata
Composer
Herchet, Jörg (b. 1943).
Gender
Male
Work
Komposition für fagott solo. Leipzig: Deutscher Verlag für Musik.
Duration
14 minutes
Description
Composed in 1977 for Wolfgang Liebscher, and included in both Music and Playing Techniques of the 20th Century and Zeitgenössische Musik für Fagott solo, both edited by Dieter Hähnchen, this piece is a veritable compendium of extended techniques. Quarter-tones, timbral alterations, vibrato manipulations, harmonics, glissandi, multiphonics, flutter tonguing, and tongue-slaps are called for in this music. The very challenging music is atonal and predominantly angular, with asymmetrical and even erratic lines over the full range up to D#5. Suggested fingerings for many of the extended techniques and are provided, taken from Bruno Bartolozzi’s seminal book, New Sounds for Woodwind (London: Oxford University Press, 1967) and/or Sergio Penazzi’s Metodo per Fagotto (Milan: Ricordi. 1972), but these are not always reliable. Be prepared to experiment.
Date Range of Work
1977