The Analyst

For clarinet, guitar, upright bass and violin

Movement I – approx. 5‘
Movement II – approx. 5’

Nate Trier, July 2014

“He, the corner-office king,
Rules commercial banking rings.
Bonus glows as income grows –
Self-assured; expensive
clothes...
Quantification surprise: it was
lies!
Variables shuffle and all his data
fades.
Take care; don’t disrupt the
income stream…
The Analyst
Movement I
Read the score on the next page from left to right, following your row.
The “tape” row is there as a reference, not a guideline; most of your cues will be auditory or marked with a yellow circle
in the score.
The yellow circles indicate what to listen for as a cue.
Don’t play during the first presentation of the poem.
The notation in the score is just a shorthand for the full Analyst theme, shown below. Whenever you see the truncated
version of the theme (just a measure and a half), play the full theme as indicated below.
The score should be printed in color on 8.5” by 14” paper
Moderately
Nate Trier, July 2014
 ~28”
TAPE
~15”
:05 Poem:
“He, the corner-
office king…”
1:05 2:05 3:05 3:37 3:42 4:00 5:00
Copy the tape A while After low bass tone, play
:25
using after the this melody slowly and
Drone on E predominantly unsynchronized with the
Violin etc.
poem
extended others
stops, cue
techniques until each other
you hear the for very Follow the tape:
[End your etc. etc.
poem quiet build and explode
phrase and
:50 1:05
then don’t sustained 4:05 5:00
3:37 3:42
tones: each
etc.
Improvise play during player
freely the poem] chooses
Clarinet
until you hear freely from
the poem ~28” concert
“He, the A, Bb, C, Db
Follow the tape:
corner- build and explode
office Play the Theme slowly
1:05
king…”
2:36 3:37 3:42 and unsynchronized with
Guitar Underpin and
Copy the tape
support bass solo
the others; during the
using extended
techniques until
using notes and repeat, turn any note into
extended Follow the tape: a long tone that lasts
you hear the poem
techniques build and explode
until the end of the poem
1:05 2:36 3:37 3:42
Copy the tape 3:54
~7” using
predominantly
~1’ etc.
Bass extended
techniques until Solo freely
you hear the Follow the tape:
poem build and explode