Chord for Mr. Woodshedfor piano 6-hands[~0:37]An acquaintance of mine, a woodshed, I am privileged to address as "Mister". Each Winter his owner orders delivered to his door a cord of cedar. I determined this season to give him something like that too.
This score quotes it from my Flipidodes (2015), which consisted entirely of 12-tone, all-interval chords with two additional constraints: the tritone was their center interval, and their upper &/or lower hexachords were invertible. All inversions, M5 transforms and interval- wise complements aside, there are three such entities.
From those, for this piece, I have commandeered the one whose ascent most graphically evokes the image of "going up in smoke". (See score.)
Given such an image, I intuit, meaningful performance would best be short on convenience. Accordingly, the extreme ranges are assigned to the center player (II), while the inner ranges devolve - albeit tangled - to the outer players (I & III). These latter may sit, negotiating relative near-arm positions; Player II, however and for this reason, is urged to stand.
Performance duration will vary with the instrument, i.e., as the time required for all pedalled string vibration to subside.
Access: score. Note that I am termed the Arranger,as no single chord is copyrightable.