The Master Waits
- Instrumentation
- Cello Ensemble
- Composed
- 2017
- Duration
- 2'22''
- Publisher
- Composer (self-published)
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About this piece
A slow duet for two cellos in C minor (quarter = 53), composed and recorded by the composer in October-November 2017 and included on his album The Ageless Gate. The second cello accompanies throughout with pizzicato chords while the first cello plays a lyrical melody, which in the middle adds a low open-string voice beneath it. A version for viola and cello is also offered free on the composer's site.
Technical overview
The melody part moves between first and fourth position up to E-flat 4 in bass clef, with dotted rhythms, slurred sixteenth-note turns, a natural harmonic and a few double stops against the open C string; the accompanying part plucks three- and four-note chords on every beat.
Technical focus
- Ensemble Skills
- Pizzicato
- Double Stops
- Shifting
- Slurs
- Dotted Rhythms
- Harmonics
- Dynamics
- Accidentals