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"Farewell Sonata" Trills.

Author: P4sEnvy
Date: 2013-02-01 23:00

This afternoon I was scouring through the clarinet solos in the band hall.
Now, I love a beautiful, slow piece, so "Farewell Sonata" by Ehsan Saboohi caught my eye. After making copies, my director and I sat down and began to look at it.
We saw something neither of us have seen before.
This trill is crazy!
I'm probably not going to explain this in the best of ways because honestly I have no idea.. so I'm going to attempt to attach a picture as well.
The trill starts on a G# inside the staff, then trills to a... uh.. sharp with 3 lines through it (I saw online once, but I cannot find it again - a sharp-and-a-half?) then trills to a sharp with one line in it..(once again.. think it said demisharp?).
The primary note then stays on the (demisharped?) G# and trills to a GNatural, then to a.. uh.. backwords flat? I'm sorry if this makes absolutely no sense..
See the attached picture if you would, please.

Thank you for all the help that is provided because I am utterly lost.

-John, Texas

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Author: P4sEnvy
Date: 2013-02-01 23:02

EDIT:
I cannot get this darned photo to upload /:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/92788471@N05/8436957450/in/photostream

Post Edited (2013-02-01 23:11)

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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2013-02-02 04:55

These are symbols for microtones. For example, a G with a sharp with a single line would be a tone midway between G and G#. A G with a three-line sharp would be midway between G# and A. I'm not positive about the interpretation of his quarter tone flat symbols (backwards flat and backwards and normal flat combined,) but I expect that a B with a backwards flat would be midway between B and Bb while the "double flat" (with the first one backwards) would be midway between Bb and A.

Best regards,
jnk

Edit: BTW, the Saboohi Farewell Sonata is available as a free download on IMSLP.

Post Edited (2013-02-02 04:57)

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