Dedicated to Max Ernst and all the Surrealists who have given me inspiration For Martin Jenni Chemical Wedding is based on Frottage and Four paintings by Max Ernst: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Chemical Wedding Grasshoppers Serenading the Moon Seen Through a Disposition Bewildered Planet The Sky Marries the Earth
*The Frontispiece is a hand drawn copy of the Max Ernst Frottage, Chemical Wedding
Instrumentation: Piccolo 3 Flutes doubling piccolo Alto Flute doubling Flute and Piccolo Trumpet in C Horn in F Trombone Bass Trombone 3 percussionists
!5 Flutes !
All transposing instruments are transposed; all accidentals carry through the measure
- indicates upward or downward pitch bends away from and back to original pitch Percussion I: vibraphone/ glockenspiel, xylophone/ glockenspiel
Percussion II: marimba, bass drum, thunder sheet, sleigh bells, chimes, vibraphone Percussion III: timpani, chimes, tambourine