It is to be read indulgently, with The Lark Ascending playing in the background.
The program also included "________" (1979), a rather tedious work based on ascending scales played (sometimes in unison) on two clarinets, violin, cello, piano and marimba, sometimes punctuated by jarring notes from the clarinet.
Play ascending notes starting from middle C, matching your pitch as before.
Instead of playing the cards in ascending order of rank, play in descending order of rank.
A quick, ascending keyboard glissando, played pianissimo, frames the score, and a falling major third, repeated over and over by a single flute, for example, evokes a cuckoo clock, around which Feldman wove gentle, continuously shifting harmonies.
He also employed hammer-on and pull-off techniques, which are described as "a slurred ascending bass line played on the fifth string [tonic]" by music writer Lenny Carlson.
From the play on sounds puns and Spoonerisms an ascending series leads to the play on words and so to the play on ideas.
Pairs of instruments play spectral ascending and descending scales, with the second part sounding as an echo.
Get hold of one and play some ascending one-note scales if you don't believe me.
The piano plays a basic three note part towards the beginning, and then plays an ascending part towards the middle, with the end note of the part being chopped into a repeating glitch that gets layered with a brass part to sort of "mechanize" the human elements of the song.
