| 作曲者 | Kenneth Hesketh (b. 1968)・ケネス・ヘスケッス |
| タイトル | The Mechanical Turk |
| サブタイトル | for solo oboe |
| 出版社 | Schott（ショット） |
| 楽器編成 | oboe |
| 品番 | 9790220134586 |
| 形状 | 12 ページ・中綴じ |
| 演奏時間 | 8分 |
| 作曲年 | 2002年 |
| 出版年 | 2014年 |
| 出版番号 | ED 13220 |
| ISMN | 9790220134586 |
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.