Amorphous Solid is an exploration of different physical states as they can be represented through musical texture. Furthermore, it’s an attempt to repurpose and reorder the traditional instrumentation of a Panorama-style steel band. At its core, the piece…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Dave Hall
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Commissioned by the TCU Percussion Orchestra for their perfomance at PASIC, this colorful, breath-taking work for large percussion ensemble takes the genre to a new level, exploring new sound combinations and timbres. Dave Hall demonstrates he is at the top…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Dave Hall
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
This quartet features three keyboards and a djembe part, although each player plays several other percussion instruments, often simultaneously with their primary part. This piece is influenced by the music of Béla Bartók as well as “drum ‘n’ bass” artists…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Dave Hall
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
A challenge to the listener to "hold fast" to the underlying rhythmic pulse established in the first sections of this work. Each section highlights different combinations of the wood and metal instruments as the pulse grows indistinct and is eventually lost.…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Casey McClure
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
An interesting work filled with rhythmic activity and slow, sad moments of reflection. Each percussionist of this sextet helps to represent the hummingbird, capable of stasis by extremely rapid movement.Program NotesHummingbird was written between Fall 2003…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Stephen Rush
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Inner Rebellion is a forceful work for an unusual trio. Make a statement on your next recital with this impressive follow-up to Rush's popular trio Rebellion.
Grade Level: 4 Copyright: 2001 Number of Players: 3 Duration: 7:20 Publisher: C. Alan Publications…
Style:
Brass, Percussion
Composer:
Stephen Rush
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
The Persistence of Memory is based on the well known Salvador Dali painting of the same name. The painting, which features Dali's famous "melting clocks" is one of the definitive works of the Surrealist Movement in art. It evokes a number of themes that lend…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Dave Hall
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Inspired by a trip to Honolulu Hawaii, Pyroclastic Steam depicts the violent process of the island's formation from molten lava to rock. The ensemble represents the different physical states of matter, moving from liquid to gas to solid. Virtuosic. Colorful.…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Dave Hall
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Rebellion is about an urge, not a cause. It is a small portrait of energy, a capsule of the feeling that an urgent need for change is felt or foreseen, and the beginnings of that change are even portrayed in the final bombast of this piece.
Grade Level: 4…
Style:
Brass, Percussion
Composer:
Stephen Rush
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Conceived as a companion piece to one of Dave Hall's other works, "Surfacing," Slide is dedicated to his three children, who are filled with such joy with the simplicity of going down a slide after the hard work of climbing the stairs to get there.Program…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Dave Hall
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications