Flitter, Dither & Rantfor piano 4 hands[2:40]This work is the third of several built of internally invertible all-interval dodecaphonic chords -- Flipidodes, as I've called them and titled the group's opening piece. Last Breath, isolating component hexachords, was the second. Below are performance hints for the present work.
Flitter: Risoluto a mettere in ordine
"Putting in order" here is of course ultimately a hopeless task, since -- defying each phrase's surely predictable fifth bar -- registral ordering among its first four never repeats. The trick is to remain not thrown.
Dither: Stordito e indecisi (tempo instabile)
"Indecision" is to be embodied within the full-bar slurs, each arbitrarily in either cresc. or dimin., and in accel. or ritard., as the players see fit. Non-full-slurred bars instead fix on one (same) dynamic and tempo.
Rant: Con frenetica insistenza
These are Flipidodes' highlighted tetrachords grouped to yield per bar the total chromatic. A gradual expansion of full-bar registral range is paralleled in metronome settings, whose performance value depends less on precise matching than on conveying proportional differences.