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This fun and compact 9-minute, four-movement suite depicts four types of clouds and packs an experimental punch with tons of extended techniques! Get a group of eight chinstrument-wielding companions together for the perfect exciting closer for your next concert! Natural and artificial harmonics represent high-altitude wispy Cirrus clouds, popcorn pizzicato represents rows of small puffy Altocumulus clouds, dreary sul tasto, creepy glissandos, and spazzolato represent gloomy Stratus clouds, and finally an explosively chromatic fugue represents the thunderclouds, Cumulonimbus!
I learned most of the extended techniques used in this piece by studying Garth Knox’s Viola Spaces, so this octet will tie into any viola student’s curriculum nicely.
This fun and compact 9-minute, four-movement suite depicts four types of clouds and packs an experimental punch with tons of extended techniques! Get a group of eight chinstrument-wielding companions together for the perfect exciting closer for your next concert! Natural and artificial harmonics represent high-altitude wispy Cirrus clouds, popcorn pizzicato represents rows of small puffy Altocumulus clouds, dreary sul tasto, creepy glissandos, and spazzolato represent gloomy Stratus clouds, and finally an explosively chromatic fugue represents the thunderclouds, Cumulonimbus!
I learned most of the extended techniques used in this piece by studying Garth Knox’s Viola Spaces, so this octet will tie into any viola student’s curriculum nicely.