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This is the Composition Database of BMC, which includes information about works by composers that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary.

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Title of the work

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

Composer
Zelenka István
Original / Hungarian title
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
Foreign language / English title
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
Subtitle
For 1 performer playing with his palms, elbows, knees, with some natural objects, with some manufactured objects
Year of composition
2006
Type
Other
Number of players
1
Instrumentation
1 performer
Publisher / Source
MS
Remarks, other info
One could play this composition as a solo, as a kind of installation, in an intimate/private space; in the nature or at a public space in the city; in a public building or within the framework of a somewhat "special" programme in a concert-hall, theatre or alike, as an autonomous solo piece or simultaneously with other musical or non-musical pieces/activities.

Duration: Versions of 30 or 60 or 90 minutes