Slater's work represents a major addition to the mallet ensemble literature. This full-fledged canzona requires advanced two and four-mallet playing on six keyboard instruments as well as sensitive playing by two percussionists. A difficult sixteen-minute…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Joseph Westley Slater
Publisher:
OU Percussion Press
Celebration! is a challenging & jubilant fanfare & overture for wind band, featuring constantly shifting mixed meters, syncopation, and soaring solos in the horn and euphonium. It works perfectly as either a concert opener or closer!
Grade Level: 5…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Philip Parker
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Trumpet Feature
With the trumpet and percussion ensemble exchanging and combining in the presentation of rhythmic and melodic ideas, this is an exciting work that explores the timbres and textures that are available to the composer of percussion ensemble…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Philip Parker
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
After a free, improvisational introduction with many special effects (bass drum roll inside piano, bowed tam-tam, wire brush on piano string, etc.), the tempo takes off in a fast triple meter. Eighths and sixteenths get passed around the ensemble very briskly…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Philip Parker
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Clarinet Feature
Using traditional percussion instruments, Parker creates a dialogue between the soloist and percussion ensemble that allows each to enjoy its own identity while achieving the kind of musical sensitivity found only in a rare number of…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Philip Parker
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
This six-movement composition was written with the goal of challenging both the marimba and flute performer, while also producing lyrical melodies in an audience-friendly format. Each movement of Le Tour de Danse allows the audience to experience a different…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Anthony James King
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Alto Saxophone Feature
Using traditional percussion instruments, Parker creates a dialogue between the soloist and percussion ensemble that allows each to enjoy its own identity while achieving the kind of musical sensitivity known only to a rare number of…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Philip Parker
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Oboe Feature
A fantastic feature for your outstanding oboe player or guest artist to perform with a developing ensemble, Soliloquy & Dance features slow melodious sections contrast to faster ornamental passages. There is even an extended cadenza for the…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Philip Parker
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Soliloquy & Dances is a fantastic feature for your outstanding oboe player or guest artist to perform with a developing ensemble. Slow melodious sections contrast to faster ornamental passages. There is even an extended cadenza for the soloist.
Grade…
Style:
Woodwind
Composer:
Philip Parker
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Essentially a two-mallet work for each performer, the Suite for Keyboard Percussion demands excellent technique from all four players. The first and third movements create exciting rhythmical textures in contrast with the second movement's beautiful chorale.…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Joseph Westley Slater
Publisher:
OU Percussion Press