anvils, Wallingford Riegger on guiro, Henry Cowell on piano, and William Schuman on the lion's roar. Sidney Finkelstein wrote in the EMS LP liner notes about the work: Instrumentation The piece is scored for 13 players: large Chinese cymbal, very deep bass drum, cowbell gong, high and low tam-tams, cowbell bongos, tenor drum, medium and deep bass drums (laid flat) field drum, tenor drum high siren, lion's roar low siren, whip, güiro 3 Chinese blocks, claves, triangle snare drum without snares, high and low maracas tarole (a kind of piccolo snare drum), snare drum, suspended cymbal clash cymbals, sleigh bells, chimes güiro, castanets, glockenspiel a clavier (with resonators) tambourine, 2 anvils, very deep tam-tam whip, sleigh bells, triangle, piano See also Ballet Mécanique, another early percussion ensemble piece often cited as the first References External links "Records 2 Die 4", review of The Varèse Record in Stereophile magazine , Frank Zappa conducts the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, February 9, 1983 Compositions by Edgard Varèse Percussion music 1931 compositions Music dedicated to ensembles or performers