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    This document provides instrumentation and performance notes for the piece "VAYEHI EREV VAYEHI BOKER" by Franck Bedrossian. It lists the instrumentation including flutes, clarinets, percussion, celesta, harp, strings. It provides detailed performance notes for techniques used by various instruments, such as whistle tones, breathing tones, crushed tones, seagull effects, and others. It also includes general performance indications such as random trills and scrapes.

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    This document provides instrumentation and performance notes for the piece "VAYEHI EREV VAYEHI BOKER" by Franck Bedrossian. It lists the instrumentation including flutes, clarinets, percussion, celesta, harp, strings. It provides detailed performance notes for techniques used by various instruments, such as whistle tones, breathing tones, crushed tones, seagull effects, and others. It also includes general performance indications such as random trills and scrapes.

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    This document provides instrumentation and performance notes for the piece "VAYEHI EREV VAYEHI BOKER" by Franck Bedrossian. It lists the instrumentation including flutes, clarinets, percussion, celesta, harp, strings. It provides detailed performance notes for techniques used by various instruments, such as whistle tones, breathing tones, crushed tones, seagull effects, and others. It also includes general performance indications such as random trills and scrapes.

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    The piece utilizes many extended techniques on wind and string instruments to create unusual timbres and textures.

    Techniques used include whistle tones, overblowing, crushed tones, seagull effects, tremolo, col legno, and pizzicato in various ways.

    The instrumentation includes flutes, clarinets, percussion, celesta, harp, violins, violas, cellos, and double bass.

    Franck BEDROSSIAN

    VAYEHI EREV VAYEHI BOKER


    for ensemble

    Commissioned by the Ensemble Intercontemporain


    Instrumentation

    - 2 Flutes (1 Flute in C, 1 Alto Flute)

    - 3 Clarinets (1Bb Soprano Clarinet, 1 Bass Clarinet, 1 Contrabass Clarinet)

    - 3 Percussions

    - 1 Celesta

    - 1 Harp

    - 3 Violins

    - 2 Violas

    - 2 Cellos

    - 1 Double-bass

    Percussion

    Percussion 1 : 1 Vibraphone, 1 Bass Drum (goat skin), Crotales, 2 suspended cymbals, 1 Tam-tam (medium), 1 Thunder sheet, 1 double-bass bow

    Percussion 2 : 1 Marimba 5 octaves, 1 Bass drum (goat skin), Crotales, 1 Thunder sheet, 1 Tam-tam (low), 2 suspended cymbals, 1 double-bass bow

    Percussion 3 : Tubular bells, 1 Tam-tam (high), 2 suspended cymbals

    The score is written in real sounds, except for the crotales, sounding two octaves higher, the celesta, one octave higher, the double-bass and contrabass
    clarinet, sounding one octave lower than notated.

    All accidentals are valid for an entire measure.

    Many thanks to Oren Boneh for his skills in Hebrew.



    Performance notes

    

    Winds

    Whistle-tone (Fl.) : Spectral glissando on the fundamental sound.

    Overblow (Fl.) : Breathe very heavily into the embouchure to make the fundamental tone disappear and bring the upper harmonic regions.
    This technique is often combined with trill.

    Breathing tone :

    Breathe noise only, slighlty colored by the pitch of the indicated note.

    Breathe noise only, obtained by alternating inhalation and exhalation into the embouchure of the instrument.

    Pizz. (Fl.), Slap (Cl.)

    Added voice : Sing into the instrument, in order to create an hybrid texture between voice and instrumental sound. The addition of the
    voice is sometimes associated with multiphonics or crushed tones for a reinforcement of low frequencies (Fl., Cl.)

    Crushed tone (Cl.) : complex sound obtained with the fingering of the written tone, being careful of bringing out the
    upper harmonic region without making the fundamental sound disappear. The overall texture must always remain rich
    and complex, comparable to the one of an electronic sound. The upper staff indicates the harmonic region that should be
    brought to the foreground.

    Gradual change from a mixed sound (voice and instrument)



    to a crushed tone. The overall texture is progressively enriched by the accumulation of upper harmonic
    regions.
    Strings

    Seagull effect (S.E.)


    The spread of the fingers remains the same during the glissando in order to

    produce a descending or ascending succession of harmonics. The result produces a repetition of small glissandos
    comparable to the scream of seagulls.

    Exaggerated oscillation :

    Vibrato of amplitude, as wide and fast as possible, like a fast wha-wha pedal effect on an
    electric guitar.

    Vertical tremolo, played in a parallel movement to the string (in opposite to the normal
    tremolo, perpendicular to the string). In this piece, this technique is combined with col legno
    in order to produce a smooth noise colored by the glissando of the wood on the string.

    Crushed tone (only noise), obtained by an extreme pressure of the bow on the strings.

    The crossed notehead indicates that the musician must play in front of the bridge, damping the
    strings.

    Crushed tone (only noise), obtained by an extreme pressure of the bow on the strings, but
    sounding differently from the previous one. The half-circle notehead indicates that one must
    play behind the bridge, on the colored zones. The sound is bright, aggressive and squeaky.

    Half-trill of double-harmonics :

    Play a major third on the string, sliding constantly with the bottom harmonic and trilling only
    the one above. This action is often combined with the glissando and tremolo.

    Getatto vertical :

    Damp the strings, doing the jeté vertically on the strings at the same time, avoiding the pitches
    to be heard. The result is noisy, percussive, and the notes barely perceptible.

    Pizz. arp., damping at the same time, so that one can only perceive the noise of the fingers
    scraping the strings.

    Pizz. gliss., where the glissando starts exactly on the accent for it to be clearly audible.

    Pizz. repeated as fast as possible, with only one finger.


    Harp

    The interpreter must provide himself with a tuning fork at the beginning of the piece.

    Place the low C and D strings between the branches of the tuning fork, then slide slowly or
    quickly as indicated whilst executing a fast vertical tremolo, parallel to the strings.
    The result is a vibrating glissando, varying constantly in its register.

    Scrape the low strings very violently and produce a metallic noise

    General signs

    Random trill : The notes placed in the box must be trilled as fast as possible, in a random
    order.

    Repeat the indicated sound randomly, imitating the irregularity of morse code rhythm .
    This notated random rhythm can apply to any sound or technique.

    Chromatic cluster, played on white and black keys


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