Bb Clarinet Fingering Chart For Inflection printable pdf download

Bb Clarinet Fingering Chart For Inflection

Inflections

To Julieta Ugartemendia

I derived my inspiration for Inflections from Berio’s Sequenza VII for oboe solo. That

famous work features a virtuosic oboe part, based upon a very deliberate and elaborate

system, set against a drone which sustains for the entire duration. When I encountered

this piece, I found myself especially intrigues by the registral treatment of the oboe in

relation to the drone. Whereas in Berio’s work the boe gradually moves away from a

single, stationary pitch, in my piece I decided to set three voices against each other in

such a way that the two outside voices (violin and cello) begin at extreme distances from

one another and gradually collapse into the center of the third voice’s (clarinet) range.

For the clarinet’s role, I began with inflections of the pitch at the center and proceeded by

expanding these in opposition to that of the counterpart players, that is by gradually

expanding away from the center. The result is akin to inflections under different

magnifications of a microscope. Inflections was commissioned by Julieta Ugertemendia.

–JJO

Bb Clarinet Fingering Chart For Inflection