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Title Duo for Voice and a String Instrument
Maker Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
Date 1961
Type score
Location Getty Research Institute, Jean Brown Papers, 890164, box 39, folder 32

This transparency score consists of five pages that can be freely superimposed upon one another. The three red rectangles function as staves indicating pitch and duration; the sheet of red circles groups symbols together into events for either the string player or the vocalist. The three sheets of miscellaneous musical symbols indicate various extended techniques. This score is a generative tool for the performers to make a realization. Performers would likely have to reposition the transparencies repeatedly within the forest of symbols to get enough attacks to constitute a performance of ten minutes or more.

© The Estate of Benjamin Patterson.

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Patterson, Benjamin. Duo for Voice and a String Instrument, 1961. Getty Research Institute, Jean Brown Papers, 890164, box 39, folder 32. In The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025. https://www.getty.edu/publications/scores/object-index/215/.

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