Two Miniatures

No. 1, "Sesquialtera", is a study in our perception of a combination of two or more harmonics (here the 3rd and the 5th in the sesquialtera stop played alone) as a peculiar timbre in high registers, but as a chord in medium or lower registers. In addition, this stop is combined with different stops representing lower harmonics. A short central section of the piece employs the sesquialtera stop in the more traditional way, as a component of the overall timbre of a solo melody against a background in softer dynamics and sound colour.

No. 2 "Reeds" is a study in the sonorities of reed stops, sometimes in combinations that make them function as an attack or gradually increasing / decreasing colouring
of the more neutral sound of a flute stop.

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