Grainger tells us that Arrival Platform Humlet conveys the sense of “Awaiting the arrival of belated train bringing one’s sweetheart from foreign parts; great fun! The sort of thing one hums to oneself as an accompaniment to one’s tramping feet as one happily…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher:
Aux Arcs Music
Naked and On Fire is an exotic sextet bringing together instruments from many corners of the world, with intricate writing for riq, triangles, gongs, tuned pipes, vibraphone and more. Using the same pitches of pipes called for in Paul Lansky’s “Threads,” this…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Adam Silverman
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Relentless, prog-rock inspired music for drum kit with recorded accompaniment track that layers electro-bass, Moog synth, Wurlitzer keyboards and more to breathtaking effect. The sheet music comes with access to download backing tracks with and without click…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Adam Silverman
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Quick Blood is a rhythmically vigorous quartet centered around mallet instruments, with carefully layered combinations and hockets and a pounding bass drum feature. Silverman’s first work for percussion ensemble, this music was composed in 2001 for…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Adam Silverman
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Percy Grainger’s Shepherd’s Hey is an iconic work in the Grainger oeuvre, along with "Irish Tune from County Derry," "Handel in the Strand," "Molly on the Shore," and "Country Gardens," establishing Grainger as perhaps the greatest “setter” of British folk…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher:
Aux Arcs Music
For an eight-player percussion ensemble, this colorful work features melodicas, drumming on guitar strings, a full complement of mallet instruments, and a forest of frog guiros. Its title, coined by a two-year-old, evoked a magical environment of bright,…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Adam Silverman
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Spiderweb Lead is a percussion quartet that brings together steel drum, marimba, vibraphone and a percussion accompaniment that can be played on drums of the performer’s choice such as tablas, bongos and congas, cajon, or any hand drum. In this composition,…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Adam Silverman
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Program NotesPercy Grainger was a multi-faceted artist. He was one of the great pianists of the first half of the twentieth century; the most important English folk song collector of his time; one of the greatest “setters” of folk song of any time; a musical…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Grainger, C. Ragsdale
Publisher:
Aux Arcs Music