The Wolf percussion solo 1988 Yuji Takahashi This music corresponds to the four stanzas of the poem Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) wrote In the presentiment of his imminent exile to Siberia. The instrumentation is for 8 drums, 2 gongs and 3 woodblacks. The beginning and the ostinato pattern of each section are written out. For the rest the performer is to improvise. For the sake of the future's trumpeting heroics, for that exalted tribe, Iwas robbed of my cup at my fathers’ feast, and of my laughter and honor. The wolfhound age springs at my shoulders though I'm no wolf by blood. Better to be stuffed up a sleeve like a fleese cap in a fur coat from the steppes of Siberia, and so not see the sniveling, nor the slickly smears, not the bleady bones on the wheel, so all night the blu foxes would still gleam for me as they did in the first times. Lead me into the night by the Yenesey where the pine touches the star. Tm no wolf by blood, and only my own kind will kill me, 17-28 March 1931 Osip Mandelstam (translated by Clarence Brown and W.S. Merwin)mm PRR ASI FDRAY OO 1988 Bey = VYF VY a2R—L (1891-1939) RT AY TAO SPRL CHORHO 4 MIMS SHR. BILB, AY72, Dy KAO y 7 BICKS. (PMLSMIOMKD HEA AT 4 T— KAP -YOBREG. TOMBAOMMICET SHS. KRENEHERD EES SC RHE HOA OR DID ESRC LE HROMS BA dae HEROBAAUE< OMIM S F< PROMBU SRO Wo tES CHPOKIIC VAUYORAROSELUIA— hOMITHILAAT SON TSTMIMGME SINKS BRE THD HMICAS KS HE BNO AS FIP RIG TOG HS PDPEUT CML ES ORM MMORLECORKT KOBPRNENE TSN Loe Mmm WaRicee< ers F< PROMBE SBE IES HATSOOTOILUL. OME AvyT VFN yvay—b 19314F)Work 3a rpemysyto 1oG6ecTb rpasyuyx BeKOB, 3a BbICOKOE Tema MoRelt A AWWHACa H Yalln Ha TIHPe OTIOB, Vi aecenss a vectu cnoeit. Mue a nne4n Kupactca Bcx-bosKonas, Ho te Bonk 4 NO KpoBH CBOeH, Sanuxaii Meua yume, kak wanky, B pykap XKapxoii wy6v1 cu6npexnx creneit, ~ Ur706 He BHjleTb HH Tpyca, HH XAMTKOM rpazub, Hu kposasptx kocteii B Konece, YT06 cHaJIH BCIO HOB ronyGble Meclbt Mute B caoeli nepBoGniTHOH Kpace. ‘Ynegu Meus B HOU, re TeueT Ennceit, M cocia go spe3qbi nocraer, Tloromy ¥To He BOrK # NO Kpopit cBocit Ui mens roueko papnbiit y6ser. 17-28 MupTa 1931 8 Drums S— aE ¢ = 2 Gongs é E o 3 Woodblocks(ages ‘vith hard sticks Materials | = pate inprovise irraguian attacks itt | i) Materials ww. [E pee =] , repeat SS efor 1 ain== repeet ad tik, repeat edtib, for 2 win. or nore? repeat Materiets fob tt =e SS SSS Materials b a o, ESS ] is (for 1 min, of more? ferepeat ed lib. by drums with sott mattets =e a reneat ot = SS Materials 7 Matoriole [epee | ~-end often chenge the ivet note of wn ,edt. | ot é - repeat ad tib. Meteriets ad tib. ot | fepeat ‘for 2 sin, or sore? 7 C3 u-r aft Pl, =