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The Instruments of the Orchestra, Siepmann, CD5


#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Introduction. And We Begin With A Bang. 1:03
2 Fanfare For The Common Man The Bass Drum On The Battlefields Wel... 1:04
3 At The Opposite Extreme Is The Triangle. 0:27
4 Piano Concerto No.1 In E Flat (Scherzo) 1:22
5 Categories Of Percussion: Tuned And Untuned. The Side Drum 0:37
6 Overture To 'La Gazza Ladra' - The Thieving Magpie (Opening) 0:53
7 The Side Drum In An Effective But Unexpected Role Clarinet Conce... 1:09
8 The Tambourine. One Of The Oldest Instruments In The World 0:22
9 Den Hoboecken Dans 1:44
10 Even Older Is The Originally Oriental Gong. 0:29
11 Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Laideronette) 1:01
12 No Single Instrument Can Match The Gong In Evoking The Breaking 1:01
13 Gymnopedie No.2 1:03
14 The Cymbals Are Generally Discovered Early In Life. The Sanguine... 1:29
15 Other Untuned Percussion Instruments Include The Whip.: Piano Co... 1:06
16 More Versatile Than The Whip Are The Wood Blocks... Studio Examp... 0:32
17 Rodeo (Hoe-Down) 0:45
18 Related To The Wood Blocks, By Sound, Are The Castanets. Jota Ar... 1:10
19 Scherzi Musicali (Damigella Tutta Belle) 1:51
20 A Still Earlier Example From Fifteenth-Century Spain 0:31
21 Yo M'Enamori D'Un Aire 1:07
22 The Birth Of The Bongo 0:34
23 Symphonic Dances From 'West Side Story' 1:40
24 From The Streets Of New York To The Blacksmith's Shop Il Trovato... 1:09
25 Desert-Island Decibels: Grand Canyon Suite (On The Trail) Arcana... 1:28
26 From One Vegetable To Another: The Humble Squash, Or Marrow Huap... 1:21
27 Onwards To The Tuned Percussion. First, The Timpani 0:15
28 Also Sprach Zarathustra (Introduction) 1:49
29 But The Drum Roll Can Be More Effectively Frightening Than The B... 0:30
30 Not One Drum Roll, But Many Grand Canyon Suite (Sunrise) Symphon... 0:38
31 Taking Advantage Of Tunability 0:23
32 Music For Strings, Percussion And Celeste (Mvt 2) 2:26
33 The Russian Composer Rodion Shchedrin Takes A Downward Turn. Car... 1:02
34 Introducing The Glockenspiel Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance And... 1:16
35 Saint-Saens And The Xylophone 0:17
36 The Carnival Of The Animals (Fossils) 1:19
37 Ravel And The Xylophone 0:12
38 Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Laideronette) 2:38
39 Introducing The Marimba Carmen Suite (First Intermezzo) 0:39
40 Introducing The Vibraphone 0:21
41 The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Narange Dolce) 1:26
42 The Vibraphone Goes Russian... Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance A... 0:58
43 Introducing The Hungarian Cimbalom 0:24
44 Folk Dances 3:01
45 The Cimbalom And The Symphony Orchestra 0:11
46 Hary Janos Suite (Mvt 3) 1:31
47 Introducing The Tubular Bells 0:18
48 Hary Janos Suite (Viennese Musical Clock) 2:05
49 A More 'Up-Front' Approach From Rodion Shchedrin 0:07
50 Carmen Suite (Introduction) 1:09
51 But The Bells Can Also Make The Sinister Even More Sinister. Sym... 0:39
52 Introducing The Celeste 0:15
53 The Nutcracker (Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy) 2:11
54 Magic, In The Use Of Collective Percussion 0:20
55 Miroirs (La Vallee Des Cloches) 1:40
56 Plucked Instruments: The 'Undercover Percussion' Carmen Suite (S... 1:26
57 A Prime Case In Point Is The Harp, Irresistible To The Romantics... 1:17
58 The Traditionally Subservient Role Of The Harpsichord In The Bar... 0:49
59 Brandenburg Concerto No.2 (Slow Mvt) 3:12
60 The Piano: King Of The Tuned Percussion Symphony No.3 'Organ' (M... 1:29
61 Petrushka (Russian Dance) 4:29
62 The Anti-Romantic Piano As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra 5:30
63 Music For Strings, Percussion And Celeste (Last Mvt) 5:07
Total time 74:42