Format : Sheet music
Arranged to be playable by any combination of band instruments these duets cover a wide range of styles from the Baroque Period to the 20th Century. Difficulty ranges from grades II through IV providing a great deal of flexibility for the needs of young musicians. In addition to the mallet duet lines the percussion book provides an optional percussion line that can be used in place of or in addition to a duet line. Perfect for smaller ensembles with unusual instrumentation and for solo and ensemble festivals.
SKU: HL.141447
ISBN 9781495009624. UPC: 888680044558. 9x12 inches.
Streams is a study of the dynamic register between pppp and p, as well as being a unique timbral exploration. Use of the human voice through humming and whispering blends seamlessly with metallic timbres using a wide variety of mallets, a slide whistle, marimba and other common percussion instruments. In a newly-engraved publication, this quiet and evocative Benson classic opens a special sound world.
SKU: HL.14041798
ISBN 9788759818077. 12.5x16.5x1.13 inches.
Set of parts for Per Nørgård's En Lys Time / A Light Hour (2008-09) for a variable Percussion Ensemble (min. 10 players).
In A Light Hour everything - rhythms and motifs – is based on Nørgård´s special infinity series.
Score: WH30964
Programme note
A Light Hour is for ‘any number of percussion musicians’ (but a minimum of ten). The duration is about 60 minutes. The instrumentation is in principle open, as long as percussion is used within the three types specified in the score: skin, metal and wood. Each musicianuses two sound sources with two different sounds, one of which is bright (or light) and the other dark. Certain passages also include tuned percussion instruments – vibraphone, xylophone, marimba, gamelan, glockenspiel, steel drums, crotales and the like. The work integrates and combines a number of rhythms that Nørgård has used in percussion works since the 1970s, for example in Early Spring Dance (for choir and percussion), and percussion works like I Ching, Easy Beats, Whirls, Zigzag, Nemo Dynamo and Echo Zone I-II-III. Special “tone-feasts” (the composer’s term) – followed by a rest – are an recognizable melodic feature of the work.: the first minute end with a short tone-feast (and a rest), the first four minutes end with a tone-feast lasting a minute (and a rest), the first quarter of an hour ends with a tone-feast of four minutes (and a rest) – and the work ends with a tone-feast lasting quarter of an hour (and a rest, when the work is over ...). The first 15 minutes have a bright, light character throughout, and alternate between rhythms and melodic play. The following 15 minutes are more insistent and decidedly percussion-based, Afro-Cuban, whereas the third quarter of A Light Hour moves in the.
