Acute Suite No. 1 Small Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: A0.835751

Includes score and parts in various transpositions.

For ensemble in four parts with optional percussion, optional keyboard and optional bass.

Like many of Burnell's compositions this piece is suitable for homogeneous ensembles and also for mixed ensembles comprising atypical instrumental combinations or numbers of instruments.

The instrumentation is not specified. The score shows clefs for parts 1-4 as if written for a string ensemble but other instrument combinations are possible. Parts are available in a variety of transpositions and clefs. Players may change parts between movements or, where a movement or section is out of range, they may be tacet.

The keyboard may be a piano, or any other keyboard instrument such as harpsichord, toy piano, electric piano etc. adapting the playing style to interpret dynamics or note durations where these are otherwise not possible to achieve.

The movement titles may suggest possible instrumentations.

Movement I, Highlighting. Duration 3:20 approx

Movement II, Swirling. Duration is 3:30 with Dal Segno repeat, 2:00 without the repeat

Movement III, Lowering. Duration 5:00 approx.

Movement IV, Flickering. Duration 1:30 approx.

Programme Note:

The movements that comprise the three Acute Suites were composed between 2010 and 2016 and each may be performed by a range of different instruments. The use of the word 'acute' refers to the relatively high pitch of the instrumental parts.

Acute Suite No. 1 is for flexibly scored ensemble in four parts with optional percussion, optional keyboard and optional bass. The movement titles of the first suite – ‘Highlighting’, ‘Swirling’, ‘Lowering’ and ‘Flickering’ - reflect the characters of the movements.