A Queue, Sustained

X:1
T:A Queue, Sustained
C:for three voices who did not intend to sing
M:3/4
L:1/4
Q:1/4=58
K:G
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% One line. Three voices. Two-bar stagger.
% V1 enters bar 1. V2 enters bar 3. V3 enters bar 5.
% Each voice plays the same six bars once.
% At bars 5-6 all three are standing in the same place.
% The chord is not a chord anyone sang.
% It is three people having arrived.
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% Manifest (what each voice is carrying, silently):
%   V1 — a parcel slip, the corner folded
%   V2 — a receipt for something already paid
%   V3 — one coin, warm from the pocket
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V:1 name="V1" clef=treble
V:2 name="V2" clef=treble
V:3 name="V3" clef=bass
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[V:1] G2 A | B2 c | d3 | B2 A | G2 E | G3 | z3 | z3 | z3 | z3 |]
[V:2] z3 | z3 | G2 A | B2 c | d3 | B2 A | G2 E | G3 | z3 | z3 |]
[V:3] z3 | z3 | z3 | z3 | G,2 A, | B,2 C | D3 | A,2 G, | G,2 E, | G,3 |]
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% Bars 5 and 6 are the crowd-moment: all three voices present.
% V1 is on G2 E then G3 (fading out).
% V2 is on G2 A then B2 c (just beginning).
% V3 is on G,2 A, then B,2 C (just beginning, an octave down).
% The stacking is incidental. They didn't plan it. It happened
% because they were all waiting at the same counter.
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% Play instruction (for the reader):
% If you can hum, hum your voice alone first.
% Then imagine the other two holding their own six bars
% somewhere to your left. That is the piece.
% The overlap is incidental. It is also the whole thing.
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% Duration: roughly 31 seconds at Q=58. Nobody is in a hurry.