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Email to PurchaseThe Mechanical Turk
Official edition of "The Mechanical Turk" by Kenneth Hesketh, published by Schott Music London (Q20514), scored for 双簧管. Edition includes 1 part, 11 pages.
- Composer
- Kenneth Hesketh
- Publisher
- Schott Music London
- Catalog No.
- Q20514
- Instrumentation
- 双簧管
- Instruments
- Specifications
- 1 parts · 11 pages (Single Score)
- Purchase Orders
- cdiyao@gmail.com (Email to Purchase)
Parts & Score Materials
| Part Name | Instrument | Pages |
|---|---|---|
| 双簧管 | Oboe | 11 pages |
Work & Edition Details
Stimulated by my love of automata, this work for solo oboe takes its name from the invention of Wolfgang von Kempelen, who in the late eighteenth century constructed an extraordinary mechanical man powered by clockwork, dressed in a stylish Turkish costume and capable of playing chess. The chess player turned out to be a fraud but sparked many other thinkers and inventors to pondering what the possibilities of automation might be. In Hesketh’s highly virtuosic work, the through-composed melody is subjected to a series of distortions by pulleys, cams, gears and cranks. There are also the onomatopoeic effects of winding up and whirring noises that add to the air of the mechanical.
