Three-movement work for solo marimba with a small multiple percussion set-up, including 2 congas, 2 bongos, 5 temple blocks, and chimes. The interplay between the marimba and percussion instruments emulates the title of the piece by creating a fascinating…
Style:
Solo Works
Composer:
Lynn Glassock
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Opens with bombastic statements in the low drums, leading into call and response with the wooden sounds and the tambourines. The marimbas finally overtake the wooden sounds and form their own groove/melody in 12/8. The piece concludes in a persistent, driving…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Lynn Glassock
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Entangled States is a concertino for multi-percussion soloist and percussion trio. Using the concepts of quantum entanglement, the materials of music, and various percussion instruments, Entangled States is a study in the nature of interaction. Each…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Dwayne Rice
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Commissioned by Brian A. West and the TCU Percussion Orchestra, I Ching is a set of variations for large percussion ensemble based on concepts from the ancient Chinese book of wisdom by the same name.
Grade Level: 4 Copyright: 2014 Number of Players: 12…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Dwayne Rice
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Marimba Feature
Off Axis includes an impressive virtuosic (yet idiomatic) solo part. Glassock uses the ensemble as a sounding board for the solo marimba with much rhythmic interplay and imitation. Constantly changing meters (4/4, 7/16, 9/16, 3/4, etc.) before…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Lynn Glassock
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Marimba Feature
Reconcilable Differences is an intriguing work for solo marimba with percussion trio. The rhythmic structure of the work starts out with recurring 32nd note motives that are slow soft and undulating. As the work progress the rhythmic structure…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Lynn Glassock
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Commissioned by the Lone Star Wind Orchestra (LSWO) Percussion Ensemble, Septet is an advanced, college level percussion ensemble for seven players. Any live performance by a group of people, whether it is music, dance, or theatre, is essentially a…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Dwayne Rice
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
In the musical world, the sounds of the flute and those of the majority of percussion instruments are not the closest of kin. Despite this difference in sonic quality (or more likely because of it), numerous interesting and effective compositions have been…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Lynn Glassock
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Written for ten percussionists, this intense hard driving composition is a challenge for the more advanced ensemble. Each player uses multiple instruments throughout the piece with the exception of one marimba part.Program NotesCommissioned by the Empire…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Lynn Glassock
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Commissioned by the Auburn University Percussion Ensemble, Warp is for a large-scale percussion ensemble of 11 performers with an off-stage violin or flute. When I had the idea for the piece, I imagined it accompanying an animated short story describing the…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Dwayne Rice
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications