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Percussion instruments:

I: marimba, hammer glockenspiel, 3 Chinese suspended cymbals, 3 tam-tams


(low, medium, high), tarole, 3 bongos, log drum, high maracas, jazzoflute
II: vibraphone, set of tubular bells, metal block, 2 m’tumbas, 4 bongos (or
Saharan drums), guiro, jazzoflute
III: xylomarimba, cowbells, 2 tam-tams, 3 suspended cymbals, low tom, snare
drum, 4 temple blocks, low maracas, rattle, jazzoflute
IV: vibraphone, 3 gongs, 3 cymbals placed on felt, Berber crotales, 6
woodblocks, bass drum, maracas, rattle, jazzoflute
V: cowbells, 3 gongs, 3 tom-toms, pedal kettledrum, 2 bongos (or Saharan
drums), triangle, claves, jazzoflute
! Publisher: Jobert, 1972.
‘This title Autodafé suggests the fate in store for a series of “historic words”,
ideological sentences or other, forming the text’s framework without
chronological order. Their derision or the imposture of which they have
sometimes become the expression, with the help of time, find their end in the fire
of sound that threatens them and finally engulfs them, leaving nothing in
conclusion but an enigmatic verse from Shakespeare: “Death once dead, there's
no more dying then”.’
‘Sounds, by their essence, are incapable of expressing anything. But they can
direct the listener’s consciousness towards a certain aspect of things by forming
in him a kind of imaginary theatre, simply with the title or a fragmentary text that
is found in the music. This is what justifies, for example, opera as an essential
genre of music. Because here, music fully plays its social role, i.e., it can act on
the conscience of its contemporaries and awaken them to a certain way of
thinking.’

TROIS CONTES DE L’HONORABLE FLEUR (no. 83)


Playing time: 58’ (Prologue: 4’30”; I: 18’; II: 17’; III: 18’30”)
Chamber opera. Tales invented by Maurice Ohana, written up by Odile Marcel
I-Ogre mangeant des jeunes femmes sous la lune; II-Le Vent d’est enfermé dans
un sac; III-La Pluie remontée au ciel
" Forces: soprano solo, instrumental ensemble 1.1.1.1, 0.1.1.0, percussion (1 or
2 performers), cithara in thirds of tones, piano, cello
Percussion instruments:
I (in the orchestra): vibraphone, xylomarimba, crotales, 1 sizzle cymbal (high), 3
Chinese suspended cymbals, 1 cymbal on felt, 2 Chinese gongs, 2 tam-tams
(medium, low), 1 petite side drum (high), 2 Saharan drums (bongos if lacking), 2
m’tumbas, 3 tom-toms (low, medium, high), 1 double-bass tom (bass drum if
lacking), 1 tambourine, 2 Japanese blocks struck together, 3 temple blocks, 3
woodblocks, 1 guiro, 3 pairs of maracas
II (on stage): 2 Saharan drums or bongos (low, medium), 2 tom-toms, 2
m’tumbas, 1 medium pedal kettledrum (B flat), 1 posed low cymbal, 1 posed high
cymbal, 1 medium tam-tam, 1 suspended Chinese gong
! Publisher: Jobert, 1978.

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