for Tenor Saxophone

and Electronics

2011

New Church Press

www.annieneikirk.com

Anne L. Neikirk

Balloonman

Balloonman
Performance Notes
Score is transposed.
The tape part appears in the same Bb transposition as the saxophone.
Rhythms are approximate and should be matched as closely as possible to the speech
pattern in the tape.
The notation of the tape part should serve as an indicator for the saxophone entrances and
cutoffs: durations may not be exact.

Program Notes
Balloonman was commissioned by and is dedicated to saxophonist Andrew Allen.
The work is based on the poem In Just- by E. E. Cummings. The saxophone melody is
derived from a recording of Cummings reading the poem. Cummings reads with a lyrical,
lilting quality. I transcribed his voice as closely as possible into a pitched melody. The entire
transcription is stated in the beginning by the saxophone alone. The electronic part consists
of manipulations of the recording as well as motivic development of the transcription. The
recording of E. E. Cummings reading the poem is gradually presented in various
relationships with the saxophone, and in the end the poem is finally heard in its original
form with the saxophone in imitation.

Composer Biography
Anne Neikirk was born in 1983 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and grew up in Scotia,
New York. She is currently working towards a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition
at Temple University. She holds a Master of Music degree in composition from Bowling
Green State University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Hamilton College. She
serves as a music theory and orchestration teaching assistant at Temple. Anne is an alumna
of the Brevard Music Institute's composition program. She serves as the president of
conTemplum, Temple University's student chapter of the Society of Composers, Inc. She is
also a member of ASCAP, AMC and the American Composers Forum. For more information
please visit www.annieneikirk.com.

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in Justspring
when the world is mudluscious the little
lame balloonman
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and eddieandbill come

running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring
when the world is puddle-wonderful
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old balloonman whistles
far
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wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing
from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
it's
spring
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the
goat-footed
balloonMan
far
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wee

whistles

"in Just-" from COMPLETE POEMS: 1904-1962, by E. E. Cummings, Edited by George J.

Firmage, is used with permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation. Copyright 1923, 1951,
1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust. Copyright (c) 1976 by George James
Firmage.

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