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    This document provides guidelines for a piece of improvised music titled "70 Chords for Terry" composed for string quartet. The piece is intended to be atmospheric and meditative. Over the course of 5 minutes, each instrument is given instructions to focus on techniques like playing single pitches, microtonal deviations, pulses, rhythms, glissandos and shifts in timbre, dynamics and vibrato. The goal is for the instruments to interact and find unusual resonances as they freely improvise within the suggested techniques.

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    This document provides guidelines for a piece of improvised music titled "70 Chords for Terry" composed for string quartet. The piece is intended to be atmospheric and meditative. Over the course of 5 minutes, each instrument is given instructions to focus on techniques like playing single pitches, microtonal deviations, pulses, rhythms, glissandos and shifts in timbre, dynamics and vibrato. The goal is for the instruments to interact and find unusual resonances as they freely improvise within the suggested techniques.

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    This document provides guidelines for a piece of improvised music titled "70 Chords for Terry" composed for string quartet. The piece is intended to be atmospheric and meditative. Over the course of 5 minutes, each instrument is given instructions to focus on techniques like playing single pitches, microtonal deviations, pulses, rhythms, glissandos and shifts in timbre, dynamics and vibrato. The goal is for the instruments to interact and find unusual resonances as they freely improvise within the suggested techniques.

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    Oliveros, Pauline - 70 Chords For Terry

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    This document provides guidelines for a piece of improvised music titled "70 Chords for Terry" composed for string quartet. The piece is intended to be atmospheric and meditative. Over the course of 5 minutes, each instrument is given instructions to focus on techniques like playing single pitches, microtonal deviations, pulses, rhythms, glissandos and shifts in timbre, dynamics and vibrato. The goal is for the instruments to interact and find unusual resonances as they freely improvise within the suggested techniques.

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    70 CHORDS FOR TERRY

    a Meditation on String Theory

    “—the strings in string theory are floating in spacetime— “4

    Notes:

    Pitch, dynamics and articulations are free.

    The piece is intended to be warm, atmospheric and meditative.

    The one-minute durations of guidelines for the focus of improvisation are flexible and may
    overlap one another slightly. The feeling should be timeless.

    Listen for beats and unusual resonances between instruments – support and encourage such
    phenomena.

    4
    http://superstringtheory.com/basics/basic4.html

    127
    0’ 1’ 2’
    Play pulses and rhythms Deviate from one pitch in Play one pitch or interval.
    using pizz and/or noises microtonal increments Use timbral glides and
    Violin and glides shifts with varying bow
    pressure from fingerboard
    to bridge.
    Deviate from one pitch in Play one pitch or interval. Play pulses and rhythms
    microtonal increments Use timbral glides and using pizz and/or noises.
    Violin and glides. shifts with varying bow
    pressure from fingerboard
    to bridge.
    Deviate from one pitch in microtonal increments and Play one pitch or interval
    glides. non vibrato. Gradually
    Viola add shifting rates and
    widths of vibrato.

    Play pulses and rhythms Play one pitch or interval. Play pulses and rhythms
    using pizz and/or noises. Use timbral glides and using pizz and/or noises.
    Cello shifts with varying bow
    pressure from fingerboard
    to bridge.

    128
    3’ 4’ 5’
    Play one pitch or interval Play pulses and rhythms Play one pitch or interval.
    non vibrato. Gradually using pizz and/or noises. Use timbral glides and
    Violin add shifting rates and shifts with varying bow
    widths of vibrato. pressure from fingerboard
    to bridge.
    Deviate from one pitch in Make dynamic shifts from slight to extreme (ppp/fff).
    microtonal increments Use irregular envelopes—short and long. Vary the
    Violin and glides. relative dynamics from one envelope to another.

    Play pulses and rhythms Play one pitch or interval Play one continuous
    using pizz and/or noises. non vibrato. Gradually upward glissando with
    Viola add shifting rates and shifting rates of tremolo
    widths of vibrato. on a trill.

    Deviate from one pitch in microtonal increments and glides.

    Cello

    Commissioned by the Pacific Rim Festival


    for the Kronos Quartet
    April 2005

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