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TÔN-THÂT Tiêt (born 1933). Autograph musical manuscript,...

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TÔN-THÂT Tiêt (born 1933). Autograph musical manuscript, Cyclo, Suite symphonique, 1994; 84 pages 34,5 x 27 cm in a titled folder (plus 1 page in-4 for the instrumentation). Music for the film Cyclo by Tran Anh Hung (1995); this music won the 1995 Georges Delerue Prize. The orchestra includes flute (and piccolo), oboe, 2 clarinets (and bass clarinet), bassoon (and contrabassoon), horn, 2 trumpets, tenor trombone, bass trombone, harp, 5 percussionists, and strings. The score is divided into 4 parts numbered from I to IV, themselves divided into timed sections with the reference of the sequences concerned: I (p. 1-30) from A (Generic) to G (duration 7'50'' ca); II (p. II (pp. 31-48) from A to C ("(sequence 38) He plunges his head into the aquarium...") (duration 7'05'' ca); III (pp. 49-75) from A to F (duration 11'30'' ca); IV (pp. 76-84) Epilogue (duration 2'20'' ca). The manuscript is carefully noted in Indian ink on 20-line paper bifeuillets; corrections by tipex; pages 6, 40 and 78 are pasted on a primitive version. The autograph parts for flute (8 p.), and percussion (11, 6 and 13 p.) are enclosed; plus material by a copyist on tracing paper; and the corrected print of the parts.

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