Michael Blake
CUM MARTELLI INCRUDENA
Bardic Edition BDE779
for elastic scoring - score and all parts included.
Cum martelli incrudena (With hammer and anvil) is a thirteenth-century Italian ballad for three voices, in which a scale rising from the first to the seventh degree is gradually built up and then broken down over a considerable number of bars, by the systematic addition and subtraction of pitches, making it a kind of minimalist prototype. It is dedicated to Barry Peter Ould to mark the founding of Bardic Edition, with whom I had just signed a publishing agreement. Michael Blake
Instrumentation:
Clarinet 1 in Bb. or Trumpet 1 in Bb or C. or Alto Saxophone 1 in Eb.
Clarinet 2 in Bb. or Trumpet 2 in Bb or C. or Alto Saxophone 2 in Eb.
Piano or Guitar or Harpsichord
Vibraphone or Glockenspiel or Xylophone or Marimba or Bells
Violin or Viola
Violoncello
Duration 2 minutes
Cum martelli incrudena (With hammer and anvil) is a thirteenth-century Italian ballad for three voices, in which a scale rising from the first to the seventh degree is gradually built up and then broken down over a considerable number of bars, by the systematic addition and subtraction of pitches, making it a kind of minimalist prototype. It is dedicated to Barry Peter Ould to mark the founding of Bardic Edition, with whom I had just signed a publishing agreement. Michael Blake
Instrumentation:
Clarinet 1 in Bb. or Trumpet 1 in Bb or C. or Alto Saxophone 1 in Eb.
Clarinet 2 in Bb. or Trumpet 2 in Bb or C. or Alto Saxophone 2 in Eb.
Piano or Guitar or Harpsichord
Vibraphone or Glockenspiel or Xylophone or Marimba or Bells
Violin or Viola
Violoncello
Duration 2 minutes
