Listers:

Thanks to all who answered my query regarding instrumentation for KING DAVID.

The "small" (original) instrumentation for Honegger's KING DAVID is:
2 flutes (one doubling piccolo)
1 oboe (doubling English Horn)
2 clarinets (one doubling bass clarinet)
2 trumpets
1 French Horn
1 Bassoon
1 Trombone
celesta
piano
harmonium
string bass
timbales
percussion (cymbales, tambour, grosse caisse, gong, tambourine)

Ravel later reorchestrated the piece for full orchestra.



Terry Sanford, Choir Director
Hixson High School, Chattanooga, TN
trsanfor(a)bellsouth.net