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Seven Dream Bagatelles
1985
vocal quartet (SATB)
3 flutes 1º doubling piccolo; 2º doubling piccolo and alto flute ; 3º doubling piccolo and bass flute
2 oboes 1º doubling english horn ; 2º doubling bass oboe
2 trumpets in C
3 trombones
prepared piano
piano
3 percussion
1: bass drum, castanets, 3 cencerros, 3 chinese gongs, glockenspiel, 4 gongs, hi-hat,
3 log drums, 2 spring coils, tenor drum, vibraphone, wind machine, xylophone
2: 3 burmese gongs, claves, 3 cowbells, 3 log drums, maraccas, ricciane, sizzle cymbal, slapstick,
string drum, tabor. tambourine, tenor drum, 3 timbales, triangle, vibraphone, vibraslap, xylophone
3: 2 anvils, bass drum, crotales, flexatone, guiro, 3 korean blocks, marimba, metal chimes, ratchet, sandpaper blocks, sizzle cymbal, slapstick, snare drum, suspended cymbal, tam-tam, triangle, vibraphone, wobbleboard, 3 woodblocks
strings
duration 38'
first performance:
Susanne Flowers, Susan Bickley, Michael Goldthorpe, Omar Ebrahim with
The London Sinfonietta, cond. Oliver Knussen, Diego Masson & Robert Ziegler
BBC Maida Vale Studios, London / May 21, 1987
RECORDING—first performance
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TEXTS
Ursula and the Violets/Do As I Say