KM 2522 – Smolka, fff (Fortissimo feroce Fittipaldi)

Martin Smolka

fff (Fortissimo feroce Fittipaldi) for Saxophone, Percussion and Piano

Spielpartitur Performance Score

Kammermusik-Bibliothek 2522

Martin Smolka

fff (Fortissimo feroce Fittipaldi) for Baritone Saxophone in E b , Percussion and Piano

Spielpartitur Performance Score

Kammermusik-Bibliothek 2522 Printed in Germany

Marton Smolka | fff (Fortissimo feroce Fittipaldi)

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Instruments

Percussion

Baritone saxophone in Eb

G.c./superball – No time to change mallets, too short duration to make

work the drawing effect… In case of troubles, please, invent any

other funny low glissanding sound, contrasty to the others

(with use of any other instrument).

Bs/Timp.-ped. – The glissando down of timpani-pedal should modulate

the pitch of bongos.

Bird – Any bird-call, for example a water-nightingale kept during the first

33 measures in mouth.

Percussion (1 player)

bird call

cup chime xylophone 2 glissanding gongs (Peking opera) – middle size, any pitch; higher gong gliss. up, lower gong gliss. down Lions roar 1 kettle drum (high) 1 bongos (fixed over the kettle drum with its open end close to timpani-skin) 1 cymbal (to be laid on kettle drum during playing; no stand) bass drum (large) + superball on wire-stick Piano + slide (very little bottle or glass, 50ml)

gloves without fingers (for glissandi) kazoo stone (flat, smooth, big more or less as piece of bread, it’s bottom slightly convex or somehow uneven)

Explanations General Measure 25 and onwards – still loud, however there will be natural

differences in volume. The delicate sounds such as piano-slide,

bird-call and cup-chime should not be played too loud and may

become even softer after m. 30 to underline the grotesque

contrast with loud sounds.

Saxophone

Piano Glissandi – It is recommended to use cotton fingerless gloves and do

the glissandi with flesh of palms to avoid injury when playing

loud and fast. Crazy wild glissandi are desired, each glissando

should start with cluster.

Clusters – The longer symbol means with forearm, the short one

means with palm. pizz./”Grrr” – The lowest string should be plucked hardly and than

touched with finger-nail to rattle.

Slide – In the higher medium register of piano, the slide should attack

strings of two adjacent tones and draw along their surface

under certain pressure, to produce a delicate glissando up

(no use of keyboard). With pedal.

Kazoo – Sing through kazoo a short glissando down (between major

second and minor third).

Stone – should be laid on strings in advance, to middle or higher

register, with its convex bottom down. To play, it should

be touched lightly so that it swings itself quickly, making

the strings ring tremulously. Usually works better with pedal.

Duration

harsh dirty sound exception: a″ (mm. 25–34) quite nice sound, like cats miaow

(ossia an octave higher) vibr./gliss. – Instead of vibrato may be used any other funny trembling

(such as bisbigliando or so). “boat horn” – The lowest possible pitch should hoot like a huge

steamboat horn.

approx. 5 minutes

World Premiere

Trio Accanto: Marcus Weiss (sax) | Christian Dierstein (perc) | Yukiko Sugawara (pno) Leonberg | 11/11/2011

Breitkopf KM 2522

dedicated to the Trio Accanto

fff (Fortissimo feroce Fittipaldi)

Kammermusik-Bibliothek 2522

Martin Smolka, 2010

Š 2010 by Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden

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Martin Smolka

Breitkopf KM 2522

fff (Fortissimo feroce Fittipaldi)

Leseprobe

Sample page

Breitkopf KM 2522

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9 790004 187623

ISMN 979-0-004-18762-3

www.breitkopf.com

9 790004 187623 B 19

EB 9298