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Balderdash

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Balderdash : for string quartet / Holly Harrison.

by Holly Harrison (2017)

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Balderdash begins and ends with amplifier feedback: a sound that quickly makes us bring our fingers to our ears! The piece imagines an alternate world in which music is heard between the feedback - a sort of sub/hyper-sonic sound world which takes place in mere seconds.


With this in mind, the string quartet explores musical ideas inspired by electric guitar, including distortion, white noise, whammy bars, power-chords, dive-bombs, wah-wah, phaser effects, slap bass, and of course, speaker feedback. Balderdash makes high use of punk rock rhythms, dissonance, and percussive-based jams, which morph in and out of bluegrass, grunge, prog-rock, metal, and . . . disco.


Given the piece was commissioned for a competition, I felt it might be fun to experiment with a battle-of-the-bands theme within the string quartet itself. Throughout Balderdash, players go rogue (especially the cello!), engage in one-upmanship, jam, duel, challenge, compete, interrupt, surrender, work together in teams, and cooperate as one. The piece is intended to be theatrical and encourages the quartet to perform with abandon.

Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (38p. -- B4 (portrait))

Difficulty: Advanced

Duration: 13 mins

Commission info: Commissioned by Silo Collective for performance by Musica Viva Australia. Commissioned for the 2018 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition

Includes program notes, performance notes and notation instructions.

Typeset edition.

This edition produced 31 Dec 18.

ISMN: 9790720179438

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