CORRELATIONS – An item for 3 dramatic soloists and six players

ENSEMBLE SET UP

Tub of Water
Hammer
Block

Auxiliary Table
Flute/Piccolo
Clarinet/Bass
Timpani
Clarinet
Violoncell
o

Conductor Deep Tub [filled with

small stones and water]

ENSEMBLE:

3 Dramatic Soloists

1 Flute/Piccolo
1 Clarinet in Bb/A/Eb/Bass Clarinet
1 Violoncello
3 Percussionists

PROPERTIES/AUXILIARY PERCUSSION:

Percussion Properties– a rubber chicken, a mallet (hammer), a wine glass, a rain stick, a pair of tap shoes,
three sizes of babushka doll (a part of a set), a flower pot (filled with red or yellow flowers), a strong set of
cutleries, a newspaper and scissors.

Percussion Instruments – three tam-tams (of descending size, one for water-gong), four cymbal sets (2
suspended cymbals, one Chinese cymbal, a pair of petit crash cymbals), ratchet, two cabassas, bass drum, 2
xylophones (one long and one smaller), vibraphone, tubular bells, thunder sheet, wind machine, three
flexatones (placed amongst the percussionists), three timpani (two grande, one piccolo), waterphone (large).
 Sean X. Quinn’s…

CORRELATIONS
A modern art piece of the ‘True Complexity’

For Three Dramatic Soloists and Ensemble

Conductor’s Score

‘When there are no boundaries of the musical world, why would one wish to follow any in the first place…?’