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Surround sound - Rahab

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As the work progresses, some musicians leave the stage to assume their surround-sound positions.
     1. 4-6 percussion stations surround the audience: left and right front, left and right middle, and left and right rear. These are not elaborate set-ups; each has a bass drum or large tom-tom.
     2. Two trumpets are in the right and left rear corners of the hall, on the balcony available.
     3. Three horns moves to surround the audience: one left, one right, and one behind the audience. This is for the sounding of the seven ram's horns (Joshua 6:4). The other four ram's horns are the two offstage trumpets in the two rear corners and two trombones which move to the two front corners of the stage.
     4. The score is enginneered so that there is plenty of time for the surround-musicians to leave the stage and return.

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