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BASS TROMBONE

8-Channel Tape

Effects Processor

Lighting & Video

Video: ONFog Machine: ON

Tape: ON

INTERMEDIA

[Bell (#1)] [Bell (#2)]

FX (Vox & Btn): Setting A (reverb)

[Creaking noises fade in (c.30")...]

Joseph Klein

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(after W.S. Merwin)(1998)

Leviathan

Leviathanfor male voice, bass trombone, and intermedia

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[Bell (#3)]

[Video: Image #1a (4")]

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harmon mute (stem out)w/ plunger

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[Video #1: Image A (c. 25")] [Video #2: Image B (c. 35")]

Stand light #2: fade ON (c. 8")

[Bell (#4)] [Bell (#5)][Ship horn]

0:30 0:35 0:40

Episode 1

(plunger down)j

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spoken text:This is the black sea-brute bulling through wave-wrack, Ancient as ocean's shifting hills,

[Stand light #2: ON (full)]

[Bell (#6)] [Crashing surf]

0:45 0:50 0:55

[u]→

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who in sea-toils Travelling, who furrows the

Stand light #1: fade ON (c. 8")

[Bell (#7)] [Ship horn]

1:00 1:05 1:10

→[u]

(open)

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salt acres Heavily,

[Stand light #1: ON (full)]

his wake hoary behind him, Shoulders spouting,

1:201:15 1:25

(harmon mute out)

[u] →

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Over wastes gray-green crashing, the fist of his forehead

[Bell (#8)] [Crashing surf]

1:30 1:35 1:40

[u]→

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past bone-wreck of vessels,among horses unbroken From bellowing fields,

[Ship horn]

1:45 1:50 1:55

→ → →

plunger mute

port. ˙œ

→ → →

q = 60P

sea brute,

(open)

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Tide-ruin, wash of lost bodies bobbing[Bell (#9)]

[Video: Image #1b (13")]

2:00 2:05 2:10

wave wrack,

sea toils,

tide ruin,

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No longer sought for,

[Video #2: Image C (c. 50")]

and islands of ice gleaming, [Crashing surf] [Ice cracking]

2:15 2:20 2:25

black loom - ing,

sea fright,

- bone wreck, sea

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Who ravening the rank flood, wave-marshalling,

[Video #1: Image D (c. 35")]

2:30 2:35 2:40

- march - es, drift

ice, shoal wa -

˙b ˙

\ \ Ø

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Overmastering the dark sea-marches, finds home

2:45 2:50 2:55

[r]→ → →

[u] → → → [ei] [v]→ → →wave

œ# -,

q = 60

- mar - shall

q = 60

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And harvest. [Bell (#10)]

3:00 3:05 3:10

\ \ ØP

→ → → [N]

\ \ ØP

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Frightening to foolhardiest Mariners, his size were difficult to describe:

[Creaking noises gradually submerge (c.40")...]

FX (Vox & Btn): Setting B (reverb)

3:15 3:20 3:25

Episode 2

e = 84œ#

bucket mutee = 84

\œ œ

like hills

.œb-\

œ# œ

heav - ing,

œ œ œb

land's self by

œb-\ œ#

.œ- ,

night,

œ œ#

œ œb

\\ Ø[A]hill of dark

\ .œb- \\ Ø

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[Video #1: Images E1-E7; Video #2: Images F1-F9 (c. 2', intermittent)]

3:30 3:35 3:40

Ø[rk]

( e = 84 )

dark of his

\œ œ

œ# œ

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The hulk of him is like hills heaving, Dark, yet as crags of drift-ice,

3:45 3:50 3:55

œ œ œb

sink - ing

œ\ œb

[st]last

( e = 84 )

- thun

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crowns, cracking in thunder, Like land's self by night black-

[Video: Image #3b (28")] [Video: Image #3a (6")]

["Hyper-trombone" interjection (short)]

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œ œb

surf churn - ing

œ .œ

œ# œ œ#

and trail - ing,

crowns

œb-\ œ œ

œ# œ

crack - ing

˙Ø\\

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surf churning and trailing Along his shores' rushing,

looming,

4:15 4:20 4:25

[N]→ → →

( e = 84 )

crack - ing

- in thun

œ# œ

\œ# œ

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shoal-water boding About the dark of his jaws;

[Bell (#15)]

[Bell (#11)]

Flood lights: fade ON (c. 45")

4:30 4:35 4:40

œn œ

long his shores'

œ\ .œ#

œ œ,

rush - ing,

.œ#\ J

\ \ Ø[p][i]

\ \ Øn

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and who should moor at his edge And fare on afoot

4:45 4:50 4:55

( e = 84 )

the hill

œb\ œb

- dark un

œ\ œ œ

der foot

\\ \ Øœ#-

[i]div ing

\\ \ Øœ-

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would find gates of no gardens, But the

5:00 5:05 5:10

[N]→ → →

( e = 84 )

- clos - ing ov

.œ-\\

er head

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hill of dark underfoot diving, Closing overhead, the cold deep,

[Flood lights: ON (full)]

5:15 5:20 5:25

- drown

œ\ .œ

[i]ing

\ \ Øn

→ → → [N]

\ \ Ø

(bucket mute out)j

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and drowning.

(ossia: 8va)

["Hyper-trombone" interjection]

FX (Vox & Btn): OFF

5:30 5:35 5:40

c. 2.5"open

f declamatory= 50q

¿/\ \

He is called Le - vi - a - than,

.¿ Ò

and named for roll - ing,

œb œbœn œ

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There go the ships: there is that leviathan,

Step forward (into the spotlight)

Spot light #1: fade ON (c. 3")

["Leviathan" echoes...]

whom thou hast made to play therein. Canst thou draw out Leviathan with an hook?

I will not

["Hyper-trombone" chord (c.1'40")]

5:45 5:50 5:55

Episode 3

morendo...

first cre-a-ted he was of all

˙n- ˙b

crea - tures,

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conceal his parts, nor his power, Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

...nor his comely proportion.

Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about. Canst thou put an hook

6:00 6:05 6:10

c. 2.5"

œ#- œ

‰ ¿¿

> ¿ Ò

He has held Jo - nah three days and

œbœ#

nights,

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into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?...as out of a seething pot or cauldron.

When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid.

His breath kindleth coals,

Canst thou fill his skin with barbed Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, and a

6:15 6:20 6:25

morendo...

¿ ¿¿

He is that curl-ing ser - pent that in o-cean

˙- ˙b

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irons? or his head with fish spears? Upon earth there is not his like, He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: Behold, the hope of him is in vain:

...he makethflame goeth out of his mouth. ...who is made without fear.

6:30 6:35 6:40

c. 2.5"

˙b- ,

Ò¿ ¿

Sea - fright he is, and the shad- ow

œbœ j

¿ ¿¿ Ò

un-der the earth.

œ œœ# œ#

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In that day the Lord

Spot light: fade OFF (c. 7")

["Hyper-trombone" chord portamento (c.10")]

the sea like a pot of ointment. ...shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?...with his sore and great and strong sword

None is so fierce that dare stir him up:...shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan, that

6:45 6:50 6:55

F-II˙

P innocent= 40q

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...and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Return to original position

[Spot light: OFF]

[Bell (#12)]["Hyper-trombone" sustains D]

crooked serpent;

who then is able to stand before me?

FX (Vox): ON, Setting C (reverb)

7:00 7:05 7:10

Episode 4

‚b- ‚

- \ \ ØŒ

lies Like an an - gel

P brooding

waste's

cup muteœ‚

b ‚œ

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when he lies Like an angel,

["Hyper-trombone" multiphonics fade in (c.20")... ]

Freely explore multiphonic spectra, playing/singing within the range indicated; resulting sound should blend with taped sounds.

Days there are, nonetheless,

FX (Btn): ON, Setting D (reverb; pitch shift)

7:15 7:20 7:25

un - ease

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~[unstable]→ → →

→ → → [stable]

[√] → → → [l]

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On the waste's unease,[distortion of text ("waste's unease") ]

although a lost angel

7:30 7:35 7:40

→ → →

‚œ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

(simile)œ‚

poco j

[e] [i] [n]→ → → → → →

,→ → → [unstable] [stable]→ → →

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Bird hovering, fish flashing,

[Video #1: Image H (c. 20")]

no eye of man moving,

7:45 7:50 7:55

[dZE] [l]→ → →

‚œ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

(simile)

œ- port.

earth's emp - ti

[unstable]→ → → → → →

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creature whatever Who after him

[Video: Image #7b (4")] Flood lights: fade OFF (c.25")

8:00 8:05 8:10

∆ ¿

[E] [s]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~[stable]

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came to herit earth's emptiness.

["Hyper-trombone" multiphonics transforming into submerged creaking (c.30")... ]

FX (Vox): same (Setting C)FX (Btn): Setting B (reverb)

[Ship horn]

8:15 8:20 8:25

[i] [N]→ → →

at flanks seeth - ing

(cup mute out)

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Froth at flanks seething soothes to

[Bell (#13)]

[Flood lights: OFF]

8:30 8:35 8:40

Episode 5

œ œ#

soothes to still - - -

(as a deep sigh)

Waits;

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stillness Waits;

[Echoes... ]

8:45 8:50 8:55

harmon mute (stem out).œ

- .œb-

.œ- .œb

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with one eye he watches Dark of night sinking last, with one eye dayrise

9:00 9:05 9:10

.œ- .œb

F sub.

curl - - - ing,

.œ- ˙b

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As at first over foaming pastures. He makes no cry Though that

9:15 9:20 9:25

Star climbed,

˙- .œb

wind combed

˙- ˙b

\ \ Ø

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[Bell (#17)]

light is a breath. The sea-curling, Star-climbed,[Bell (#14)]

9:30 9:35 9:40

bered with

it - self

[I] → → →still

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[Stand light #2: OFF]

Wind-combed, cumbered with itself still As at first it was,

9:45 9:50 9:55

œ œ#

œ ˙#

As at first it was,

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is the hand not yet contented Of the Creator.[Bell (#15)]

10:00 10:05 10:10

he waits for

the world to be -

port.n

F-II→ → →

[n]→ → →[I]gin

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And he waits for the world to begin.

FREEZEuntil dark

Stand light #2: fade OFF (c. 8")

(ossia: 8va)

[Stand light #2: OFF]Stand light #1: fade OFF (c. 10")

10:15 10:20 10:25

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FREEZEuntil dark

[Stand light #1: OFF]

[Bell (#16)]

10:30 10:35 10:40

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[Bell (#17)][Creaking fades out (c. 30")...]

10:45 10:50 10:55

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Tape: OFF

Video: OFFFog Machine: OFF

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