Vox Balaenae Flute/Piano/Cello Trio Score/Parts - George Crumb - Peters EP66466

George Crumb's "Vox Balaenae for three masked players" (Voice of the Whale) is scored for electric flute, electric piano, and electric cello and four antique cymbals (crotales). Inspired by the singing of the humpbacked whale, the performance requires that each of the three players wear a black half-mask (vizor-mask). "The masks, by effacing a sense of human projection, will symbolise the powerful impersonal forces of nature (nature dehumanised)" (Crumb). The stage is lit in a deep blue colour.