Music Resource Item Type Metadata
Composer
Mercer, Janis.
Gender
Female
Work
Minutes. Unpublished.
Duration
5 minutes
Description
This collection of five short pieces was composed in 1984. The music is atonal and serial, and uses the same row throughout, but substantial changes of character provide aural camouflage. The piece requires multiphonics, flutter-tonguing, tongue-slaps on both the reed and bocal, glissandi, timbre changes, air sounds, harmonics, tremolos, and one quarter-tone. The music is challenging, primarily because of the density of extended techniques, but neither traditional technique nor range (to B4) are problematic in this rather austere work.
Date Range of Work
1984