Intégrales

Intégrales is a work for wind, brass, and percussion by Edgard Varèse, written in 1923 and published in New York in 1925.[1] It was first performed on ! March 1925, at the Aeolian Hall, New York at a concert organised by the International Composers' Guild (ICG). It was also the last piece played at the final concert ICG on 17 April 1927, also at the Aeolian Hall. This was contrary to the ICG policy of only performing a work once, a policy of which Varèse himself was the foremost proponent.[2]

Instrumentation

Intégrales is scored for 2 piccolos, 1 oboe, 1 E-flat clarinet, 1 clarinet, 1 horn, 2 trumpets (one in D, one in C), 1 trombone, 1 bass trombone, 1 contrabass trombone, and 4 percussionists (suspended cymbal and three drums; castanets, cymbals, and wood blocks; sleigh bells, chains, tambourine, gong, and tam-tam; triangle, crash cymbal, bass drum, twigs and slapstick).[3]

References
  1. Kennedy, Michael (1990). "Intégrales". The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (3 ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 317. ISBN 0193113201.
  2. Lott, R. Allen (1983). ""New Music for New Ears": The International Composers' Guild". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 36 (2): 266–286. doi:10.2307/831066. ISSN 0003-0139.
  3. "Intégrales (1923-1925)". brahms.ircam.fr (in French). Retrieved 16 March 2014.
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