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Heads or Tails? / beFORe JOHN4

Composer
Holló Aurél / Váczi Zoltán
Original / Hungarian title
FEJ, vagy ÍRÁS? / beFORe JOHN4
Foreign language / English title
Heads or Tails? / beFORe JOHN4
Year of composition
2000
Type
Ensemble
Number of players
8
Instrumentation
player 1: sax.s. (written in C), oil barrel roar (hanged), tmb.b. roar

player 2: fl., fl.a., 2 jew’s arpa, jew’s arpa (bass) or sampler, fujara (place the instrument after „Pub”on the other stand (in „Lamentation” set-up), wind whistle, plastic pipe (blowed), sheperd’s flute, 3 conch shells

player 3: 3 fl., 2 jew’s arpa

player 4: (percussion 1) marimba (marimbaphone), 4 shaticks, coconutshell-phone, 4 pieces of wood, didjeridoo, large Chinese tom-tom, rianmaker, plastic pipe

player 5: (percussion 2) cabasa, Bengalien string - tamb., cimb. antique, marimba, 3 Chinese cimb. (small, madium, large), 2 Turkish cimb., Japanese bell

player 6: (percussion 3) jew’s arpa, jew’s arpa (bass) – or sampler (share with 2 nd player), marimba (marimbaphone) (share with 4th player), bamboo-dowel, guiro, 3 cimb. antique, water – gong (chinese), plastic tuba, 2 Chinese gong (medium, large)

player 7: (percussion 4) fujara (share with 2 nd player), el. chit., 2 synth. sheperd’s fl., speech, large Paiste tam-tam (play on it as an archer)

player 8: (extra percussion player) large tam-tam, large Japanese, temple bell (cane)
Publisher / Source
153rd Music Publications Hungary, 153008
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