George Frederick McKay · section 72 of 111

Project 21

Listen to the qualities of the extreme registers of the instruments as played by individual instrumentalists, and to music by contemporary masters of orchestration who employ extreme registers. Make some use of these choice timbres in experiments of your own. Ordinarily the extremes of register will be used either for melody or for accompaniment, not for both. The object of experimentation for Project 21 will be to explore the use of clear unmixed tone color, rather than blend, which has been dealt with in Project 18.