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S C R I E N D O
C O G I T O
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s a x o p h o n e i n
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A l t o a x o p h o n e i n E b
e n o r
a x o p h o n e i n
B b
B a r i t o n e s a x o p h o n e i n
E b
D u r a t i o n c i r c a
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Notes
The
thoughts behind Scribendo Cogito for
saxophone
quartet
come
from
those
of
Ludwig
Wittgenstein's
in
Philosophical Investigations. Upon read
Wittgenstein's work, realized the problems Wittgenstein
had
encountered with language is ever more profound
in
music, and his suggestion of co
language as play , in fact, a sine qua non in all musical activities. Thus,
sought to re-examine how a musical reahty
is
constructed, how a message
other nature(s) is translated
into
sounds, or actually,
a
representative play of sounds. At the end, do not attempt to provide any solution to those pr
real
and imaginative.
On
the
contrary,
might add
some
problems of
my
own creation.
In
a
nutshell, this is music for and by itself.
L ip smacking, popping sounds
X
Key clicks
Air
Sound
Transition from one sonority to another
Bisbigliando, microtonal and/or color trill on a single
note
Tr i l l on the circled key
fingering will generate more upper harmonics when volume is increased.
Bisb
(*) This multiphonic
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People
say again and again
that
philosophy doesn't really progress,
that
we are
still
occupied with the
same
philosophical problems as were the Greek. But the people
zvho
say this don't understand why it
Jms
to be so. It is because our language has remained the
same
and keeps seducing us into asking the
same
questions. As long as there continues to be
a
verb 'to be'
that
looks as
if
it functions the
same
way as 'to eat' and 'to drink \ long
as we have the adjectives 'indentical', 'true'false \ \ long as we continue to
talk
o f a river of time, of
an expanse
of space,
etc, etc., people
will
keep stumbling over the
same
puzzling difficulties and find themselves staring at something which no explanation seems
capable
o f clearing
up.
And
what's more, this satisfies a
longing
for
the transcendent, because in
so far
as people think
they
can see the 'limits
of human
understanding ,
they
believe
of
course
that they
can see beyond these.
f
have exhausted the
justifica
reached
the bedrock and my sp
Then I am inclined to say: This is simply
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