For solo trombone and tape with optional percussion, includes score, parts, and tape (audio file included in download). This composition my be performed by solo trombone, or by trombone and percussion and/or tape; i.e., either a solo, one of two possible duos, or a trio. Also, a grand piano with raised lid is used as an additional sound source. Duration: ca. 8' 11"
Print size: Trombone part- Letter (8.5 x 11") Percussion part- Legal (8.5 x 14")
Review from Percussive Notes:
Elliott Schwartz – Options I
While this eight-minute work primarily features the trombone, it offers a nice opportunity for a percussionist to interact with a wind player in a chamber setting, as well as to stretch his or her improvisational chops on non-pitched instruments. Written in 1971 and recently published, the piece requires the trombonist to cycle through a variety of performance techniques (with and without a mute, gliss up and down to undefined notes, and even play on the strings of an opened piano), while the percussionist interacts and responds to these moments by performing from a series of 10 “events” on the printed page. The percussion events consist of a mixture of notated rhythms, improvisatory gestures from graphic notation boxes, performing with fingers on instruments, and the incorporation of shouts and hums.
—Joshua D. Smith
