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
Chopin's Prelude in E Minor provides the material upon which Hennagin composed a masterful work for a percussion ensemble of ten players. A complete battery of percussion instruments are used to create a powerful composition utilizing essentially traditional…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Michael Hennagin
Publisher:
OU Percussion Press
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 twelve-minute work for twelve players will bring a sense of mystery and illusion to its audience. Based on a poem by Walt Whitman, this percussion ensemble is another fine addition to the literature of Michael Hennagin. Hennagin has created a rhythmic…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Michael Hennagin
Publisher:
OU Percussion Press
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
Scored for organ and percussion quartet, Soundscapes explores many of the sonic possibilities of the pipe organ and accentuates these with a wide array of battery percussion, gongs & other metallic instruments, and keyboard percussion.
Grade Level: 3…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Robert Rumbelow
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
On a warm summer evening around midnight, a lone firefly flits among the trees and is soon joined by dozens of others. Suddenly and magically they coordinate their flashing lights and movements as they dance a veritable ballet. Then, as suddenly as they…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Philip Parker
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications