Small Ensemble Cello,Double Bass,Flute - Digital Download SKU: A0.1024749 Composed by Will Phillips. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and parts. 5 pages. Will Phillips Music #3465402. Published by Will Phillips Music (A0.1024749). Sync, for flute, cello, and bass trio, is a complex piece which includes a variety of time signatures, virtuosic flute lines, driving cello rhythms, and jazz-influenced pizzicato bass lines. The title derives from the phasing that occurs as a result of multiple pulses that align, dis-align, and re-align throughout. The rhythms that drive the piece are heavily syncopated, yet often times, even non-syncopated rhythms are perceived as such as a result of the offsetting phasing of the pulse. The rhythmic figures are constructed as not just a variety of attacks, but also note lengths, which alternate between combinations of accents, legato, and staccato phrases. Each section is glued together using transitions which guide the individual pulses to their next point of alignment. Throughout the bridge sections, all three instruments take on differing roles: the flute plays ethnically influenced over-arching melodies, while the cello underscores the flute with double and triple-stop chords, and the bass maintains a steady but syncopated pulse. Finally, the piece comes to a close with each instrument rallying together as one; the final sync point.
