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The tracks " Sun in My Mouth " and " Heirloom " are missing, of which " Heirloom " received its first performance on the subsequent 2003 Greatest Hits Tour, and " Sun in My Mouth " was performed live at the Icelandic television in February 2011 in a celesta version of the song, played by Jónas Sen. Track 1 is mistitled as " Frosti ", which is on the album too, but it is actually the music box version of Pagan Poetry found on the Cocoon single. Tracks 3 & 7: Original versions on HomogenicTracks 2 & 8: Original versions on SelmasongsTrack 16: Original version on the It's in Our Hands single.
The size and constitution of the orchestra varies from song to song, but the total orchestral forces required for performance of the complete set are as follows: two flutes, two oboes ( one doubling oboe d ' amore ), English horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, bass tuba, timpani, celesta, harp, piano and strings.

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Gershwin scored An American in Paris for the standard instruments of the symphony orchestra plus celesta, saxophones, and automobile horns.
An American in Paris is scored for 3 flutes ( 3rd doubling on piccolo ), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in B flat, bass clarinet in B flat, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B flat, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, triangle, wood block, cymbals, low and high tom-toms, xylophone, glockenspiel, celesta, 4 taxi horns resembling the pitches A, B, C and D, alto saxophone / soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, baritone saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, and strings.
1994 ) Ballet music for piano, harpsichord, celesta, glockenspiel
Music theatre work for soprano, tenor, 2 female speakers, 8 amplified mixed voices, amplified orchestra ( 15 winds, 13 brass, harp, 2 electric guitars, 2 pianos + electric piano, off-stage upright piano, celesta, 2 synthesizers, 6 percussion, minimum 9 strings, bass guitar.
* Trilogie van de Laatste Dag ( 1996 – 97 ) ( each of its three sections may be performed separately: ( i ) The Last Day ( texts by Lucebert, folksong A Woman and Her Lass ) for boy soprano, 4 male voices, orchestra ; ( ii ) TAO ( texts by Laozi, Kotaro Takamura ) for 4 female voices, piano voice, koto, small orchestra winds, 2 horns, harp, piano (+ celesta ), 2 percussion, minimum 14 strings ; ( iii ) Dancing on the Bones ( text by the composer ) for children's chorus, orchestra, 1997 )
* Klokken voor Haarlem ( Bells for Haarlem ) ( 2002 ) for piano, celesta, synthesizer, vibraphone (+ glockenspiel )
Next followed Ravel's music for the opera L ' heure espagnole ( The Spanish Hour ), full of humor and rich in color, employing a wide variety of instruments and their characteristic qualities, including the trombone, sarrusophone, tuba, celesta, xylophone, and bells.
( 1980 ; flutes, celesta, percussion ); Paradiso, Michele: Pierrot: Ballet for Piano ( in Four Hands ) and Orchestra ( 2008 ); Pirola, Carlo: Story of Pierrot ( n. d .; brass band ); Stuppner, Hubert: Pierrot and Pierrette ( 1984 ; ballet, libretto by Arthur Schnitzler The Veil of Pierrette under # Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues | Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues ); Vidale, Piero: Pierrot's Dream: Four Fantasy Impressions ( 1957 ; orchestra ).
However, Ernest Chausson preceded Tchaikovsky by employing the celesta in December 1888 in his incidental music, written for a small orchestra, for La tempête ( a French translation by Maurice Bouchor of Shakespeare's The Tempest ).
The celesta has been commonplace in cinema for decades.
In addition to supplementing numerous soundtrack orchestrations for films of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, the celesta has occasionally been spotlighted to invoke a whimsical air.
Herrmann chose unusual instrumentation for the film: violin, cello, and bass ( all three electric ), two theremin electronic instruments ( played by Dr. Samuel Hoffman and Paul Shure ), two Hammond organs, a large studio electric organ, three vibraphones, two glockenspiels, marimba, tam-tam, 2 bass drums, 3 sets of timpani, two pianos, celesta, two harps, 1 horn, three trumpets, three trombones, and four tubas.
The 1924 orchestration for Whiteman's band of 24 musicians ( plus violins ) calls for the following orchestra: woodwinds ( 3 players ): flute, oboe, clarinet in E-flat, clarinet in B-flat, alto clarinet in E-flat, bass clarinet in B-flat, heckelphone, sopranino saxophone in E-flat, soprano saxophone in B-flat, alto saxophone in E-flat, tenor saxophone in B-flat, baritone saxophone in E-flat ; brass: 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 flugelhorns, euphonium, 3 trombones, tuba ; percussion: drums, timpani, trap set ; keyboards: 2 pianos, celesta, accordion ; strings: banjo, violins and string basses.
** 3 harps ( special tuning required for the two of them ), celesta, mandolin, guitar
Among other things, the score is noted for its use of the celesta, an instrument that the composer had already employed in his much lesser known symphonic ballad The Voyevoda.
* Chthonic Ode " Homage to Henry Moore " for large orchestra with euphonium, celesta and piano, Op.
* Octet, ( for flute (+ piccolo ), clarinet, violin, viola, cello, double bass, celesta, percussion ), 1978
13 ( 1975 ), for flute, cor anglais, clarinet, horn, piano, celesta & string trio centennial commission
It is scored for Western orchestra but, in McPhee's description, the core of the ensemble is a "' nuclear gamelan ' composed of two pianos, celesta, xylophone, marimba, and glockenspiel ," giving it a highly percussive balance of sound.

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The celesta is used in many 20th century opera scores, including Puccini's Tosca ( 1900 ), Ravel's L ' heure espagnole ( 1911 ), Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1912 ), and Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1918 ), while " an excellent example of its beauty when well employed ", is the Silver Rose scene in his Der Rosenkavalier ( 1911 ), Busoni's Arlecchino ( 1917 ) and Doktor Faust ( 1925 ), Orff's Der Mond ( 1939 ), Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball ( 1937 ), Britten's The Turn of the Screw ( 1954 ) and A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ), Susa's Transformations ( 1973 ), and Philip Glass ' Akhnaten ( 1984 ).
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( The part is sometimes performed on a celesta, however, which sounds quite different from the intended effect.
The celesta () or celeste () is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard.
One of the best-known works that makes use of the celesta is Tchaikovsky's " Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy " from The Nutcracker.
The sound of the celesta is similar to that of the glockenspiel, but with a much softer and more subtle timbre.
The celesta is a transposing instrument ; it sounds an octave higher than the written pitch.
The celesta part is normally written on two bracketed staves, called a grand staff.
The celesta is also notably used in Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 6, particularly in the 1st, 2nd and 4th movements, in his Symphony No. 8 and Das Lied von der Erde.
The keyboard glockenspiel part in Mozart's The Magic Flute is nowadays played by a celesta.
While the celesta is not overly common in popular music, it has been used now and again.
The reaction of the startled director was said to be, " My wife is being raped and you write celesta music?
* The celesta is invented by Auguste Mustel.
Chausson is believed to be the first composer to use the celesta.
Das Lied von der Erde is scored for a large orchestra consisting of piccolo, three flutes ( the third doubling on second piccolo ), three oboes ( the third doubling on English horn ), three clarinets, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, three bassoons ( the third doubling on contrabassoon ), four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, bass tuba, percussion ( timpani, bass drum, side drum ( omitted in the revised score ), cymbals, triangle, tambourine, tamtam, glockenspiel ), celesta, two harps, mandolin, and strings.
The work is scored for two flutes and piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets and E-flat clarinet, two bassoons and contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, triangle, cymbals, bass drum, tam-tam, glockenspiel, xylophone, two harps ( one part ), piano, celesta and strings.
This symphony is scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 3 oboes ( 3rd doubling cor anglais ), 4 clarinets ( 3rd doubling Eb clarinet, 4th doubling bass clarinet ), 3 bassoons ( 3rd doubling contrabassoon ), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, tambourine, tam-tam, xylophone, harp, celesta and strings.

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By 1995, Euros Rowlands had replaced Osian Evans on drums in time to record a second album-Bwyd Time-which featured a wide range of instrumentation ( such as the parts for the celesta and sitar credited on " Iechyd Da ").

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Then, a little later, Shilkret discovered there was no one to play the brief celesta solo during the slow section, so he hastily asked Gershwin if he might play the solo ; Gershwin said he could and so he briefly participated in the actual recording.
Other instruments such as the piano and celesta may sometimes be grouped into a fifth section such as a keyboard section or may stand alone, as may the concert harp and electric and electronic instruments.
The sound produced has a bell-like character not unlike a vibraphone, celesta or glockenspiel.
The celesta was invented in 1886 by Parisian harmonium builder Auguste Mustel.
His father, Victor Mustel, had developed the forerunner of the celesta, the typophone or the dulcitone, in 1860.
The following year, he used the celesta in passages in his ballet The Nutcracker ( Op.
George Gershwin included a celesta solo in the score to An American in Paris.
Since its adoption by Earl Hines in 1928, the celesta has been used occasionally by jazz pianists as an alternative instrument.
Fats Waller in the 1930s sometimes played the celesta with his right hand and the piano simultaneously with his left hand.
Other notable jazz pianists who occasionally played the celesta include Meade " Lux " Lewis, Willie " The Lion " Smith, Art Tatum, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, McCoy Tyner, Sun Ra, and Herbie Hancock.

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