Chikako Morishita

森下周子

Lizard (shadow) (2011)

for solo clarinet in B flat

revised on March 2013

Chikako Morishita

森下周子

Lizard (shadow) (2011)

for solo clarinet in B flat
revised on March 2013

Dedicated to Heather Roche

Lizard (shadow) was written as part of activity of Tokyo-Helsinki composer exchange project co-organized by Tokyo

Wonder Site, Helsinki International Artist Program and Sibelius Academy.

Premiered by Heather Roche on 17th November 2011, Cable factory, Helsinki

Supported by Nomura Foundation.

Score is in B flat

Duration: approx. 8 minutes

About the work

tokage【戸陰】shade of gate

戸 door; gate

陰 shade; yin; negative; sex organs; shadow

Lizard (shadow) is a work about silence. One of the possible ways of writing the term for lizard (tokage) in Japanese

consists of the kanji characters for gate and for shade, which metaphorically represent something being kept secret, but

somehow concrete. This ‘shade of the gate’ or, in my terms ‘shaded emotion’ or ‘choking inarticulacy’ alternately colored by

an audible/inaudible form was something central to this composition’s conception.

Lizard (shadow) for solo clarinet in B flat is one of a series of four pieces for varying instrumentations. The score for this

solo work frames performer’s own interpretative sensibilities through the use of multiple layered phrases, exploring the

performer’s unique way of ‘lightning’ and ‘shading’ spaces. The work consists of ten fragments.
Notes for performance
- All ten fragments are to be played at once and their orders cannot be changed.

- There should be a certain amount of negative space (silence) in-between each piece

ACCIDENTALS

Accidentals apply only to the notes they immediately precede. Natural signs have been added however, to facilitate reading.

Quartertones:

Illofes for pefiormance

Illofes forto pefiormance
be played at once and their orders cannot be changed.
- Alt ten ftagments arE

- There should be a certain amount of negative space (silence) in-between each piece
- Alt ten ftagments arE played
to be at once and their orders cannot be changed.

- There should be a certain amount of negative space (silence) in-between each piece
ACCIDENTALS

Accidentals apply only to the notes they immediately precede. Natural signs have been added however, to fiicilitate reading.

Quartertones:
ACCIDENTALS
{h b { \l*
Accidentals apply only to the notes they immediately precede. Natural signs have been added however, to fiicilitate reading.
FERMATAS /rnrn fi;7lar
Quartertones:
FERMATAS
{h b { \l*
/rnrn loqr fi;7lar

SYMBOLS
FERMATAS
breath noise (pitch is inaudible)

SYMBOLS breathy tone (pitch is audible)

loqr
SYMBOLS

o normal tone
breath noise (pitch is inaudible)
breath noise (pitch is inaudible)

voice (humming)

breathy tone (pitch is audible)

breathy tone (pitch is audible)

slap tongue

o normal tone normal tone

I
soft slap tongue

,t voice (humming)
thick, heavy and strong distoiled tone produed by the changes of janl's position and mouth piece position
voice (humming)

slap tongue
slap tongue

soft slap tongue

I
soft slap tongue

thick, heavy and strong distorted tone produced by the changes of jaw’s position and
,t thick, heavy and strong distoiled tone produed by the changes of janl's position and mouth piece position
mouth piece position