The Mechanical Turk for solo oboe 雙簧管 雙簧管獨奏 朔特版

18世紀末，沃爾夫岡-馮-肯佩蘭發明了一種非同尋常的機械人，它由發條驅動，身著時尚的土耳其服裝，能夠下棋。這位棋手最終被證明是個騙子，但卻引發了許多其他思想家和發明家對自動化可能性的思考。在 Hesketh 高度精湛的作品中，通譜旋律經過滑輪、凸輪、齒輪和曲柄的一系列變形。此外，上發條和呼呼聲的擬聲效果也增添了機械的氣息"

作曲家: Hesketh, Kenneth
樂器: oboe
出版社: Schott Music
原文簡介:
Stimulated by my love of automata, this work for solo oboe takes its name from the invention of Wolfgang von Kempelen, who in the late eighteenth century constructed an extraordinary mechanical man powered by clockwork, dressed in a stylish Turkish costume and capable of playing chess. The chess player turned out to be a fraud but sparked many other thinkers and inventors to pondering what the possibilities of automation might be. In Hesketh’s highly virtuosic work, the through-composed melody is subjected to a series of distortions by pulleys, cams, gears and cranks. There are also the onomatopoeic effects of winding up and whirring noises that add to the air of the mechanical.