Sleeping braid
Barbara Benary
About this work:
Frog Peak Music
For gamelan with suling(flute) and mezzo-soprano obbligati. A double canon built over a permutation of the Javanese pelog scale. Text by the composer is a lullaby to her small daughter. Realization of the piece is indeterminate. In a diatonic realization other instruments may be substituted for the gamelan keyboards, such as accoustic guitars, marimbas-vibraphones, etc.
Recorded on Locust Music #41/42 (instrumental only) and on Gamelan Son of Lion GSOL CD-4
Year composed: 1977
Duration: 00:04:10
Ensemble type: Unspecified Instrument(s):Ensemble
Instrumentation: 1 Other Percussion Instrument(s), 1 Unspecified Instrument(s)
Instrumentation notes: gamelan ens, voice (opt) or vib (or 2 lute/gtr), hrp, rec