The Hour Without a Name

[Title: The Hour Without a Name] [Cast: V1 Starfall] [V1: smooth smoky female alto, wordless vocalise only, pure open vowels, straight tone, restrained vibrato, breath audible] [Tempo: 68 BPM] [Meter: 5/4, grouped 3 plus 2] [Key: B minor, suspended D major color] [Opening: eight bars, near silence] [Room tone] [One low tagelharpa bow] [Long decay] [V1: distant, single breath tone] Mm... [Silence: two bars] [First Movement: tagelharpa, cello harmonic] [V1: close, fragile] Ooh... Ah... [Silence: one bar] [French horn: one low breathy note] [Prepared piano: isolated resonance] [V1] Mm... Ooh... [Pulse Emerging: hide frame drum, very soft, 3 plus 2] [Tagelharpa repeats a rough five beat figure] [Cello enters beneath] [V1: slightly wider] Ah... Ooh ah... Mm... [Instrumental: six bars] [Bass clarinet answers horn] [Leave space between every phrase] [Vocal Layer: V1 doubles, distant] Ooh... (Ooh...) Ah... (Ah...) [Gathering: frame drum slightly stronger] [Low floor tom once every second measure] [Prepared piano resonance widens] [Horn rises one interval] [V1: open vowel, no belt] Aah... Ooh... Aah... [Instrumental Rise: eight bars] [Tagelharpa grows rougher] [Cello moves from harmonics into bowed low melody] [Horn and bass clarinet separate in stereo] [No cymbals] [V1: layered, suspended] Ooh... Ah... Ooh... Mm... [Peak: ensemble full but restrained] [Frame drum stops] [Silence: one full measure] [V1: alone] Ah... [Decay: cello and horn only] [Tagelharpa drops away] [Piano gives one soft low note] [V1: close again] Mm... [Silence: two bars] [Coda: one distant horn tone] [V1: breath into tone] Haa... [Final Resonance: bowed cello harmonic, room tone] [No cadence] [No final hit] [End: natural decay into silence]