Mandragora (Mandrake)

Cem Güven

Time Stamp: 0:13 — 1:29
Description:

The ensemble crescendos and decrescendos, sometimes on one long note, and other times on rustling sixteenth notes!

Keywords: Dynamics - Composition Technique , Dynamics - Expressive Elements

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Time Stamp: 1:34 — 2:42
Description:

The violins begin to play with the wood of their bows. This articulation is called "col legno"!

Underneath the violins, the cellos glissando up and down their strings. Soon, they repeat the dynamic figures from the beginning!

Keywords: Col Legno , Glissando

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Time Stamp: 4:54 — 5:13
Description:

Listen as the entire ensemble crescendos, again and again!

After every crescendo, some of the instruments play ornamental trills!

Keywords: Dynamics - Composition Technique , Dynamics - Expressive Elements , Trill - Articulation

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Time Stamp: 6:04 — 6:47
Description:

To end the piece, the violins tremolo in their high range, as the low instruments glissando upwards and downwards!

Keywords: Tremolo - Articulation , Tremolo - Expressive Elements , Glissando