Tyler Kline ° Raissa violin + double bass + piano 2015 ca. 6’00” www.tylerklinemusic.comRaissa (2015) Tyler Kline Duration: ca. 430° GTK Music (ASCAP) www.tylerklinemusic.com for Strings & Hammers Sini Virtanen, violin - Julia Keller, double bass - Eunmi Ko, piano Instrumentation violin double bass piano Program Notes Composed in 2015, Raissa is a short work for violin, double bass, and piano written for the trio Strings & Hammers. The work is comprised of a single melodic thread that runs through the entire work and is passed around the ensemble, similar to the German klangfarbenmelodie (sound~color melody). This, melodic thread is veiled for almost the entirety of the work, and is done so through the use of various extended sounds and dynamic contrasts. Structurally, the work consists of fragments of this thread that frequently come to @ rest (at fermatas) before continuing again. The work takes its title and draws guidance from Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, specifically the section titled "Hidden Cities 2,” about the city of Raissa. In the book, Marco Polo describes Raissa as the “city of sadness,” where an invisible thread “binds one living being to another for a moment, then unravels, then is stretched again...," so that hidden from the unhappy city is a happy city unaware of itseff.Performance Notes Fermatas occur throughout the work with relative time indications (in seconds) above them. Violin halfrmuted Sul ponticello with numbers indicate various “degrees” of sul pont. ‘Square noteheads indicale a “half muted,” semi- pitched and “airy” tone. 1 = poco sul pont. (almost ordinario) 2= molto sul pont. (very harsh) Arrows indicate smooth transitions between these degrees Double Bass unos! se Scratch tones are always "x" “x noteheads in bass clef __| Tangle noteheads in percussion noteheads in percussion clef. | indicate an unpitched, percussive | Clef are performed as a quasi- This should be performed by pizzicato. sustained scratch tone (without ‘overpressuring” with the bow to pitch). This should be gritty, and create a quick, unpitched and unevenness of sound is welcome. percussive tone, on any string.(Performance Notes, continued) Piano slowly scrape picked ie PP fo paral “Plucked” notes are performed inside of the piano by plucking the string(s) of the corresponding note. Mutffled notes are indicated with a “+" and are performed by “muffing’ the string of the given note, resulting ina percussive, pitched tone. This figure should be performed by scraping a card (i.e., credit card, ID card, etc.) on the lower strings of the piano. Harmonics are performed by touching the string of the note (bass clef) at the given “node” to create the given sounding pitch (treble oe?) The card should be pulled slowly along the string towards the performer to create a “gritty” scraping sound, “X" note heads with a “+' are performed similarly, but are unpitched.for Strings & Hammers ‘Score Raissa Tyler Kline = . . ae, So *m BO a4 violin double bass | rs 09.64 lcked py piano PP t act ring on ea. Revit s Ss a Scifegno z os on 5 or 3 a = & : we 4 nda —— nner = Me vin. db. no, J saat i ale Spa : vin db. pro, : ih are on i eo poral Copyright ©2015 Tyler Kline/GTK Music (ASCAP)2 [Raissa] vin db. no, ttm ring on rd or So parity db. pro, “stm ring de fr pri) a s y, ye piez ® =O a touch sl on mod for th part)[Raissa] 3 ar : a 2 2 five Z pez ‘arco ‘ae ae i . aoe vin db. hol fermta uni piano resonance ful Secays rn pno. # Cid : ese, Seats : zemen, dere Feo. 10, 205 Tampa, FL.