Acute Suite No. 2 Small Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: A0.835752

Includes score and parts in various transpositions.

For ensemble in three parts with optional bass and percussion.

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 1-2 that suggest violin and viola, 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.

Keyboard - 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. If there is more than one keyboard player, then the players may alternate or double-up to emphasise the harmonic and dynamic structures. It is also allowed for the keyboard part to be played or doubled by other instruments.

The movement titles may suggest possible instrumentations.

Movement I: Gazing. Duration 4:10 approx.

Movement II: Swaying. Duration 3:40 approx.

Movement III: Wavering. Duration 3:40 approx.

Programme note:

Acute Suite No. 2 is for an ensemble in three parts with optional bass and percussion.

The first movement ‘Gazing’ was composed in 2012 for the British ensemble FourSight, and was originally titled 'Girl with Binoculars'. The second movement ‘Swaying’, and the third movement ‘Wavering’, were written in early 2016.