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Divertimento

Divertimento
in collaboration with Bruno Maderna
Year of composition: 
1957
Year composition ended: 
1957
Scored for: 
orchestra
Dedication: 

Mario Labroca

Duration: 
12'
Annotations: 

I. Dark rapture crawl (BM)
II. Scat rag (LB)
III. Rumba-Ramble (LB)

Instrumentation details (orchestra): 3 fl (3° anche ottavino), 2 ob, cor ang, cl picc in Eb, 2 cl in Bb, bass cl in Bb, 2 bsn, ctr.bsn, 5 sax, 2 hrn, 5 trp in C (la prima tromba anche tromba piccola in F), 3 trb, tuba, timp, percussion – 4 players (3 bongos (il 3°, più grave, può essere sostituito da un tom-tom piccolo), claves, 3 tom-tom (high-medium-low), 3 suspended cymbals (high-medium-low), 3 tam-tam (high-medium-low), 5 cencerros, triangolo, 2 tamb. militari (c.c. e s.c.), 3 temple blocks), e.guit, vibraphone, marimbaphone and xylophone (1 player), celeste and glockenspiel (1 player), hp, pno, vln (10-15), vla (8-12), vc (6-8), cb (4-6).

Details for saxophones:
in Dark Rapture Crawl: 1 sax soprano and 1alto sax
2 sax contralti 2 sax tenori
1 sax tenore 2 sax baritoni
1 sax baritono
in Scat rag: 2 alto sax, 2 ten. sax, 1 sax baritono
in Rhumba-Rumble: 2 cl in Bb, 2 sax tenori, 1 sax baritono

First performance: 
02/12/1957. Rome, Foro Italico. Dir: Bruno Maderna
Publisher: 
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni
Edition number: 
5453
Program notes: 

Author's note: Italian