The Horla (Excerpt), an Accompanied Reading by Paul Burnell Sheet Music for Percussion Ensemble at Sheet Music Direct
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The Horla (Excerpt), an Accompanied Reading
by Paul Burnell Percussion Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

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Composed 2015. One of a series of fourteen accompaniments to texts published between 1886-1899

Duration 4:45 approx.

For percussion (three players) and narrator

Narrator text - from 'Le Horla' by Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893), published 1887.  English translation by Jonathan Sturges (18641911) published 1890.

Guy de Maupassant was a French writer, remembered as a master of the short story.  It has been suggested that the word "horla" is a blending of the French words hors ("outside") and là ("there") and the title can be interpreted as "the whats out there".

Percussion: Wind wand or bullroarer and two guiros (or similar). Players read from the score.

Narrator cues are shown in the score in boxed text and below in square brackets.  Between rehearsal letters [D] and [H] the percussionists maintain tempo; the narrator cues are for guidance only.

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