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Orchestra as body. A living, breathing body in space, consisting of humans and instrumental sounds. The limits and limbs of the body. Its pain spots, the comfortable positions. Body changing through time or in relation to its surroundings, such as when falling down, under stress, being seated, or kept waiting. Holding your breath, or breathing deeply. Body’s rhythms. The corporeal-empathetic emotional knowledge carried by sound.The body’s non-verbal messages and demands. Oxygen. Movement. Repetition. Streching. Nerves, tissues. Even memories and fears in a fibre somewhere. Beethoven and Sibelius in its muscle memory. The bodily concept of time and, through it, the body’s relationship to the wild nature which birthted it and the back of which it is living on. One body seen as a part of a larger body. Or consisting of many bodies, as a culturally-societal body. Concreteness instead of the speculative.Oh, and of course power. Deliberately affecting the body. An example: relieving an ongoing stress reaction by hitting the so-called vagal break of the parasymphatetic nervous system – by consciously extending the exhale.Composing means affecting at least one body. In me, these thoughts produced a kind of sculptural-meditative undulation, in which the rhytmic profile or “leitmotif” that gains momentum, is, in simplified form: 3–(hold)–6–(hold). This rhytmic theme is repeated, not only as a breathing rhythm in real-life fear management or even hate management training, but also in the approximate durations of certain uttered ambiguous Finnish word pairs that may be associated with inhaling and exhaling, such as ‘luo – luota’ (‘to – from’ / ‘create – trust’) and ‘syvään – ääneen’ (‘deeply – into sound/out loud’). Music begins where words end, but one can always let different frameworks coexist, side by side or within each other, as I’ve tried to do here.Habitus (2014–17) was commissioned by Tapiola Sinfonietta, the best symphonic body of the city where I grew up, and was designed to be premiered in a Musica nova Helsinki 2017 concert – it is dedicated to everyone involved with this.© 2017 Jarkko Hartikainen

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Abbreviation	Instrument
Woodwind
acl	alto clarinet
afl	alto flute
arec	alto recorder
asax	alto saxophone
barsax	baritone saxophone
barhn	baritone horn
bcl	bass clarinet
bfl	bass flute
bob	bass oboe
bsax	bass saxophone
bsn	bassoon
cbsn	contrabassoon
cl	clarinet
ehn	English horn
fl	flute
hn	French horn
ob	oboe
pic	piccolo
rec	recorder
sax	saxophone
srec	soprano recorder
ssax	soprano saxophone
trec	tenor recorder
tsax	tenor saxophone
Brass
ahn	alto horn
atrb	altotrombone
barhn	baritone horn
btrb	bass trombone
cornet	cornet
euph	euphonium
fhn	flugelhorn
hn	French horn
tba	tuuba
thn	tenor horn
trb	trombone
trp	trumpet
Percussion
dr	drums
glock	glockenspiel
mar	marimba
perc	percussion
timp	timpani
vibr	vibraphone
xyl	xylophone
Strings
db	double bass
gamba	viola da gamba
str	strings
vla	viola
vlc	cello
vln	violin
Other
acc	accordion
cel	celesta
cemb	harpsichord
chords	chords
elbas	electric bass
elg	electric guitar
elorg	electric organ
elpno	electric piano
guit	guitar
harm	harmonium
hca	harmonica
hp	harp
instr	instrument
kantele	kantele
keyb	keyboard
live electr	live electronics
mand	mandolin
mel	melody
org	organ
pno	piano
synth	synthesizer
tape	tape
Vocal
alto	alto
baryt	baritone
basso	bass voice
ch	choir
chc	childrens choir
chf	female choir
chm	male choir
chx	mixed choir
cten	countertenor
mezzo	mezzo-soprano
sopr	soprano
speaker	speaker
ten	tenor
voc	vocal

Symphony orchestra
2222 4331 11 1, str = 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 French horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, one other percussionist, harp and strings
Wind band
2252 3 423 21212 3 = 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 5 clarinets, 2 bassoons - 3 saxophones - 4 French horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones - 2 cornets, alto horn, 2 tenor horns, baritone horn, 2 tubas - 3 percussionists
Big band
221 4 4, pno, guit, db, dr = 2 alto saxophones, 2 tenor saxophones, baritone saxophone, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, piano, guitar, double bass, drums
Additional codes
+	fl+pic = flutist doubles on piccolo
/	pno/org = can be played on either piano or organ
lib	ad libitum
obl	obligato
str	str: 65432 = specified number of string players
str min	str min: 65432 = at least 65432
str max	str max: 65432 = not more than 65432
solo	vln solo = violin is the solo instrument in a work not obviously for solo violin