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    The Banshee
    Explanation

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    Symbols

    "The Banshee" is played on the open strings of the piano, the player standing at the crook. Another person must sit at the keyboard and hold down the damper pedal throughout the composition. The whole work should be played an octave lower than written. R. H. stands for "right hand." L. H ..stands for "left hand." Different ways of playingthe strings are indicated by a letter over each tone, as follows: indicates a sweep with the flesh of the finger from the lowest string up to the note given.

    @ sweep lengthwise along the string of the note given with flesh of finger. @ sweep up an~ ~ack from lowest A to highest B-flat given in this com tlOn. @ pluck string with flesh of finger, where written, instead of octave lower. sweep along three notes together, in the same manner as @.
    POSl

    sweep ofin flesh. the manner of@ but with the back of finger-nail instead when start the finger is half way along the string in the manner of (F), a sweep along the same string with the flesh of the o~r sweeptime back and forth in the manner of , but start at the same from both above and below, crossing the sweep in the
    middle. CD sweep along five notes, in the manner of CD same as(D but with back of finger-nails finger, thus partly damping the sound.

    @.
    instead of flesh of finger.

    sweep taking along in manner of CI) with nails of both hands together, in all notes between the two outer limits given.
    @ sweep
    in mam;.er of

    with

    flat of hand instead of single finger.

    3. The Banshee
    Henry Cowell
    (1925)

    Tempo Rubato

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    Copyright Copyright All rights

    1930 by W. A. Quineke
    Copyright ossigned reserved, renewed inc1uding the

    & Company,

    Los Angeles, Cowell

    California

    1958 by Henry
    right of publie

    1959 to Associoled

    Mus;e Publishers,

    Ine., New York for profit.

    performance

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