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| I | The instrumentation above is that prescribed in the published score. In the printed program for the first performance, however, HC ex- pounds his rather permissive concept of the proper instrumentation of Ensemble and specifies that "for the . . . present production" move- ment 4 is scored for what amounts to woodwind quintet with string orchestra. Indeed, even though HC usually referred to this work as | |
| a | quintet?and actually used that term in his printed title?only the last movement is a quintet in the printed score, and even that was not true at the first performance. On the verso of the tide-page of the published score HC provides his best statement of the how and why of his thunder sticks, which in later years he repudiated as do- ing more bad for the music than good. | |
| F | At Aeolian Hall, New York, 8 Feb 1925, at a concert sponsored by the International Composers' Guild by a group led by Vladimir Sha- vitch, with the thunder sticks (bull-roarers in the older anthropological literature) in the hands of HC and two colleagues | |
| M | (a) Ink full score complete on 35p (b) Pencil draft full score complete on 31p; p4 (not counted here) is devoted to an unrelated 4-part "Chromatic Instrumental Fugue" (no. 401) which begins 8m after the Poco piu mosso in the 1st movement. (c) Ink score of movement 4 only, for woodwind quartet and string quintet (with added cello) on 16p (d) Ink score, partly condensed, of movement 4 for string quintet alone, though with reminders here and there of woodwinds that rule out the possibility of its being a string arrangement; on 8p | |
| P | Miniature score (22p) copyright 1925, Breitkopf and Haertel (later AMP) | |
| 380a | Ensemble [arranged for chamber orchestra] | |
| D | Movements 1 and 2 arranged in 1928 as movements 1 and 2 of Sm- fonietta (no. 443). Movement 3 of Ensemble was also arranged as movement 3 of Sinfonietta, but only appeared as such in one record- ing and at several concerts, according to information from HC via SRC. | |
| 380b | Ensemble for String Orchestra Revised Version 1956 (1) Larghetto, pl-7 (2) Prestissimo, p7-16 | |
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