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Jay's Pyramid Scheme - MLE 56
By Jay Kreuzer 2009
 
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My dear friend and current ARS Board member Greta Haug-Hryciw did a mini-workshop in 2009 entitled “Tuning Camp.” I offered to write a tuning exercise to be used in her workshop. As I was writing the exercise, it grew into something bigger, and I finally gave it a name. I wrote the whole thing in one sitting, and I hope the ARS membership will like it.

-- Jay Kreuzer

 
 

Technically an étude about intonation, this piece can be considered a real piece of concert music, whether one to a part or recorder orchestra with doubles at the lower octave. (Tuning issues are compounded, of course, in larger groups.) It has a full story arc with conflict and resolution, requiring consensus among the players with regard to the storytelling.

-- Glen Shannon, Editor

 
 
No. of Recorder Parts:
4
Difficulty:
Moderate
Occasion:
Any
Libraries:
Members' Library Editions
Date Added:
03/01/2016
Style:
Concert, Tonal/Melodic