Composer Mette Nielsen
Instrumentation For 8 – 20 musicians – any instruments. No conductor.
Category 7+ Instruments
Publication year 2025
Catalogue no. B.0937
Duration 20 minutes
Rules for Playing
(2024)
(2024)
Composer Mette Nielsen
Instrumentation For 8 – 20 musicians – any instruments. No conductor.
Category 7+ Instruments
Publication year 2025
Catalogue no. B.0937
Duration 20 minutes
The piece consists of a number of ACTIONS and REACTIONS.
An ACTION can be begun at any time, unless otherwise specified.
A REACTION always follows someone else’s ACTION.
Certain ACTIONs may trump others, so that the other musicians must react to them, no matter what else is going on. Some REACTIONs are mandatory, others are voluntary.
The musicians are divided in three ‘types’: A, B and C. Type A has a lot of actions, type B has some actions and type C has just one action.
Musicians should divide these parts among themselves at the first rehearsal. Everyone should know all three types.
The piece begins when one of the type A musicians starts an action. It ends when everyone has either left the stage or is standing up and humming. The five phases of the piece are described on the next page.
A lot of the music in this piece is improvisatory in nature. Listen to each other, imitate, exaggerate, interrupt each other.
This is a conversation and a power dynamic. If you are a person of power (type A), use your power.
There are scores for:
All categories Solo 2-6 Instruments 7+ Instruments Choir Orchestra Educational Music Open Instrumentation
Moduler
2025 • Mette Nielsen
Orchestra
10 minutes
for four music-school orchestras
Skræl og kød
2025 • Mette Nielsen
Choir
9 minutes
for mixed choir
Patchwork Musik - SANDFLUGT
2021 • Mette Nielsen
Educational Music
Open instr.
Forestilling om et fastfrosset øjeblik
2020 • Mette Nielsen
2-6 Instruments
15 minutes
String quartet
Bevægelser
2022 • Mette Nielsen
Orchestra
25 minutes
3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/timp.2perc/hp/str
Tidlig solopgang
2022 • Mette Nielsen
Choir
8 minutes
Mixed choir
Together
2021 • Mette Nielsen
2-6 Instruments
12 minutes
Basset clarinet in A, violin, viola, cello
Alone
2021 • Mette Nielsen
Solo
10 minutes
Basset clarinet in A
Patchwork Musik – Tjaldur
2021 • Mette Nielsen
Open Instrumentation
(open instr.) fl, ob, cl, bsn, sax, brass, acc, pno/perc, vln, vla, vlc, db
Slow Race for Flute and Clarinet in Eb
2014 • Mette Nielsen
2-6 Instruments
Flute and clarinet in Eb
Apart
2021 • Mette Nielsen
2-6 Instruments
18 minutes
String quartet
Snigende, Søgende, Syngende
2018 • Mette Nielsen
Educational Music
Cello solo, duo, or trio
Motet (for girls' choir)
2012 • Mette Nielsen
Choir
1:30 minutes
Girls' choir (SSAA)
Motet (for mixed choir)
2012 • Mette Nielsen
Choir
1:30 minutes
Mixed choir (SATB)
String Quartet in One Movement
2012 • Mette Nielsen
2-6 Instruments
5 minutes
String quartet
Song I used to sing to the machines
2013 • Mette Nielsen
7+ Instruments
12 minutes
1.1.1.1/1.1.1.0/perc/hrp/pno/1.1.1.1.1
Slow Race for Two Flutes
2013 • Mette Nielsen
2-6 Instruments
Two flutes
Ritual for et rum
2018 • Mette Nielsen
2-6 Instruments
8 minutes
Clarinet in A, alto saxophone, amplified guitar
Oh let me
2018 • Mette Nielsen
2-6 Instruments
10 minutes
Soprano, harpsichord, baroque violin, baroque cello
If I Had a Hammer
2012 • Mette Nielsen
Open Instrumentation
10 minutes
Open composition for an indefinite number of voices, hammer, chisel and brick
Under vandspejlet
2017 • Mette Nielsen
Solo
5 minutes
Double bass solo
Kontur
2010 • Mette Nielsen
2-6 Instruments
6:30 minutes
Fl, cl, pno, vln, vlc
Drømte mig en drøm
2005 • Mette Nielsen
2-6 Instruments
Voice and accordion
Der står en lind
2005 • Mette Nielsen
2-6 Instruments
Voice and piano
Contour
2009 • Mette Nielsen
Solo
5:44 minutes
Organ solo
Circle #3
2012 • Mette Nielsen
7+ Instruments
10 minutes
Fl, ob, cl, bsn, hrn, trp, trb (each with iPods)
Patchwork Musik – Isfjeldet
2018 • Mette Nielsen
Educational Music
Den samme flod
2018 • Mette Nielsen
2-6 Instruments
10 minutes
Violin, cello, and piano
Listende, Larmende, Legende
2018 • Mette Nielsen
Educational Music
Accordeon solo, duo, or trio
Optakt til march
2017 • Mette Nielsen
Educational Music
4 minutes
Percussion solo
Dans, drøm
2017 • Mette Nielsen
Educational Music
4 minutes
Guitar solo
Square #2
2012 • Mette Nielsen
2-6 Instruments
7 percussionists with iPods
Odense Havn 1991/2016
2016 • Mette Nielsen
2-6 Instruments
20 minutes
Tape and ensemble (fl, b.cl, pno, vla, vlc, db)
Kvartet til minde om en sang
2016 • Mette Nielsen
2-6 Instruments
String quartet
Jeg vil ikke falde
2014 • Mette Nielsen
2-6 Instruments
11 minutes
Mezzo, cl, perc, db
Fragmented Obstructions
2013 • Mette Nielsen
2-6 Instruments
12 minutes
bass clarinet, cello & percussion