Issuu

LAND OF WAKING DREAMS

FOR PIANO SOLO

By Juhi Bansal

This score is not licensed for performance. Please visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.

Land of Waking Dreams was commissioned by Piano Spheres, and is dedicated to pianist Nic Gerpe.

Program Note Inspired by the night sky seen from the desert backcountry, Land of Waking Dreams borrows the shapes, gestures and colors of a murmuring nightscape. Pointillistic stars and murky clouds against a carpet of shifting blues. Whistling wind across open plateaus, silence and a deep resonance.

juhibansalcomposer@gmail.com www.juhibansal.com

This score is not licensed for performance. Please visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.

Notes to performer: - This piece should be played with the utmost rhythmic freedom. Even gestures notated in time can and should be subject to all manner of rhythmic expression. These include the addition of rubato, slowing down and speeding up a phrase (or mid-phrase), adding subtle or overt agogic accents etc. - Between rehearsal marks J and S, a light weight length of chain needs to be placed over the strings of the piano, between the pitches D#5 - D#6. This should be lightweight enough to resonate with the strings when played and add a "jangling" effect, but it must be heavy enough not to slip off the strings during performance. It is advisable to tape or otherwise secure the string to a crossbeam or to the wood of the piano, so it does not fall into the instrument's interior. - All grace notes are on the beat - Between Rehearsal Marks J and S (where the chain is on the strings), make frequent and free use of the una corda pedal. (This will exaggerate the resonant effect of the chain on that octave.) - Towards the end of the piece, there is a figure played four times, that produces a dramatic, low register blur. The figure appears at: 1. 1 mm before rehearsal P 2. 1 mm before rehearsal Q 3. 1 mm before rehearsal R 4. the final measure of the piece. Each time the figure appears, its total length should grow longer and longer, leading to the culmination of the piece. In addition, the marked crescendo each time should be played exponentially - i.e. stay extremely soft as long as possible, and then furiously and quickly grow to the louder dynamic.

This score is not licensed for performance. Please visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.

Land of Waking Dreams q = 120 accel.

      

  



  





  3    



     

   



   

 

fff

              

    3    

  

     3

 



  

 

A Out of time (ca 6 seconds) .................................

 



   



    

       fff

     

   

 

     



accel.

 

                         

                                     



   pp



 

  

         fff



    









On the strings









On the keys

  

 



 



 



strum strings with fingertips or nails



    pp



 

       

 

 





 



 This score is not licensed for performance. Please visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.









 



     

  

 ppp









(on the keys)



 





  3

     3



                fff



           3

       

slap lowest strings



 ff









  ppp

 

(strum with nails)

This score is not licensed for performance. Please visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.



B 

q = 120 accel.





  

  



   



   



   



  



 

   









C   



ppp



 p

      

 













  





sfffz





     

   3   

fff



ppp

  

 

 

    

  

This score is not licensed for performance. Please visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.



6 p

                



 

    pp



  

 

 

  5

 





  

 





   

  

     





accel.



  



f poco a poco cresc.

          



 

This score is not licensed for performance. Please visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.





 6

7 5

  

    





    

     



    

     

      





molto rit.

    

  



fff



     



     



  

        

(continue F-A-C#-F figure) 



          

 fp



    





  





 

      

This score is not licensed for performance. Please visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.

 









    



 





   

         



 





3                3

      

            







 



    

         



This score is not licensed for performance. Please visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.



   





    



 



 f

 







 

  

 

 

    



 

 rit.

    

  





 

















This score is not licensed for performance. Please visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.





  



               

fff

As fast as possible

           

fff ppp



           

      

 

      

 



               



accel.

                                       cresc.

                                

  

   

  







ppp

            3

   

         

 

    

          

       

rit.

       

 

 

a tempo

fff

In Time, e. = 50



rit.



 

      



     

     

       

This score is not licensed for performance. Please visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.

   

    a tempo    





pp                   3

     



 

      

    

rit.

            



          

a tempo, in strict time

  





           

   

          



    

4                    



    

  

    

  

  

 

   

 

 

  

 

 



    

     

         

       

                         

This score is not licensed for performance. Please visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.

       

          

            







   



        

    

   



H  

                

    

           

   



    

   

  

(no emphasis on downbeats)

fff

               

               

  

     

I           p

        

  

                                  

    

                  

This score is not licensed for performance. Please visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.

    

                              

pp sub.

     

    

   

J    

rit.



  



K 

  



(Place chain over the octave F5 - F6 over the strings) (Repeat measure as many times as necessary to facilitate this)

repeat bar ad lib as necessary (prepare to place chain over the strings)



  



dim.

  



  



 







 

    

  

 





 



ppp

   

       

                        

    

        

        sfz         





                    

This score is not licensed for performance. Please visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.

L    



ppp

     

         

    

  

                              

  







 





 

   

a tempo

sfz

rit.

    

   

     





   

rit.

a tempo

ppp



  





    

           

  

  

rit.

M In time     

       

 

    



    

          

  

                     



rit.

            



   

          

This score is not licensed for performance. Please visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.

   

     

   

 



 

   

  





 

   

 N    (short)



fff



           

                  

       pp sub.

                                                           





                                 

O rit.



              cresc.

Deliberately

      

                      

   



a tempo

 



              fff

This score is not licensed for performance. Please visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.





  

             







  



molto rit.

   



    

         



  

ca 8 seconds out of time



              



poco rit.



ppp

 



    



 

           



 

P                               



                              pp

      

       

      





cresc.

  ff

  

This score is not licensed for performance. Please visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.

 

 



ca 10 seconds out of time



 

  

 

       

    

 

 

   



ff    



Q              pp



          

 



          



                    rit.

                                cresc.





ca 14 seconds out of time



 

 

 



   



 

 

R  

       



            ppp fff  

 



  



 

  



  fff



This score is not licensed for performance. Please visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.



                       





  

  f

  

S Audibly remove chain from strings.

 rit.

    



 

(at written pitch) pppp

T   



pppp

 



    

               



  3

cresc.

ppp

 





 3

            

 

  3

 

        

       

  p





   



cresc.                                            

This score is not licensed for performance. Please visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.







 

accel.

 

 

 



 



 



  





  

  

molto rit.          pp

   

              

  

as long as possible out of time    

                    



 



ffff

          

This score is not licensed for performance. Please visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.

