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Scored for primarily keyboard percussion, this difficult eleven-minute work challenges the players both rhythmically and conceptually. Its minimalist nature creates an unusual and engaging work for all ten players.
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Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Carolyn Bremer
Publisher:
OU Percussion Press
Cloud Dance is a stunning and engaging work that begins by emulating the sounds of rolling thunder, falling rain drops, and gently stirred wind chimes in a summer rainstorm. It becomes a dance in which several central ideas are developed as if they were rain…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Harrison J. Collins
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Scored for 11 players (brass quintet, wind quintet, percussion) Costumes of the Sky is a dramatic tone poem for chamber winds. A vivid tapestry of instrumental color that includes doubling winds (fl./alto fl.; ob./Eng. hn.; cl./bass cl.) piccolo trumpet, and…
Style:
Woodwind, Brass, Percussion
Composer:
Greg Danner
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Four Architectures in Normal, Illinois is a dynamic and colorful exploration of "the elements", four adjacent architectural works of art on the Illinois State University campus. Set in four contrasting movements, this show-stopping work is a blast to play and…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Harrison J. Collins
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
With an incessantly dark, ritualistic quality coupled with a metallic sparkle, Magic takes its title from the concept of magic as a powerful and unknowable cosmic force, and the awe - and potentially fear - that may be felt in its presence.Program NotesMagic…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Harrison J. Collins
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Inspired by and based on the ubiquitous Fibonacci sequence, A Page from the Book of Nature is a reflection on the crossroads at which the deep relationship between nature and mathematics can be observed. This gripping work explores several moods inspired by…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Harrison J. Collins
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Named for the area in east central Africa, Serengeti illustrates three scenes from this region. The first movement, "Endless Plains" suggests the vast grassland that is much of the Serengeti and the activity of a day on these plains. Serengeti becomes a…
Style:
Brass, Percussion
Composer:
Greg Danner
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Singing Wood is based upon interpretations of four woodcut prints: “Lake Louise” by Walter J. Phillips, “Singing Wood” by Gustave Baumann, “Willows and the Moon” by Arthur Wesley Dow and“Sierra Skyscrapers” by Frances Hammel GearheartProgram NotesSinging Wood…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Greg Danner
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
for Mallet Quartet
There and Back is a palindromic study in minimalism. This work, an exact palindrome, develops an insistent five-note motif over time (going there) and then reverses back all the way to its beginning (coming back). This work balances a…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Harrison J. Collins
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications