SKU: AY.FRD146
ISBN 9790302120148.
Paul J. Sifler, born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, immigrated to the United States at the age of 11, and following his studies at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, led a long and prolific career as a composer and organist. This Offertory for Marimba is one of the movements of his Marimba Mass (Mass for SATB Mixed Choir and Marimba), composed as a cadenza of sorts.
SKU: AY.FRD145
ISBN 9790302118145.
Paul J. Sifler, born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, immigrated to the United States at the age of 11, and following his studies at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, led a long and prolific career as a composer and organist. The Marimba Suite is in four movements: Prelude-Ostinato, Scherzetto, Carillon, and Toccata.
SKU: SU.50030740
Copyright 1989. Published by: Seesaw Music.
SKU: HL.49017599
ISBN 9790220127380. UPC: 884088415983. 9.0x12.0x0.225 inches.
One of three works Duddell has written for percussionist Colin Currie, Snowblind highlights the melodic possibilities when writing for percussion. Throughout its three movements, Duddell takes the performers through a modern day Baroque sound-world with both the use of ritornello sections and focussing on unity between the accompaniment and soloist. Snowblind will stretch post Grade-8 students and is ideal for an exam or audition situation.
SKU: SU.50019690
Composed: 2004 Published by: Seesaw Music.
SKU: HL.49046696
UPC: 841886030985.
This work in two movements is inspired by the Mexican marimba tradition. From Veracruz to San Cristobal de la Casas, I have encountered this happy or melancholy, but always festive music. It is usually played on the street or on the terrace of a cafe by a group of one to five players on the same instrument. (Thierry Pecou).
SKU: PR.16400248S
UPC: 680160038244.
This work is my second for a solo woodwind and a solo percussionist, following Firewing: The Flame and the Moth for oboe and percussion by nine years. The earlier piece followed a specific story line, and pitted the oboe against the percussionist as both adversary and lover. In Spirit Realms, my aim was not only to juxtapose the very different sounds of flute (plus alto flute and piccolo) against a large array of percussion, but also to attempt three different meditative spaces, each named for a different type of spiritual practice. The musical means of expression is very different for each of the three movements (as is the instrumentation), although they share a common scale-source: the looped pentatonic scale I have been developing over the last several years. The first movement is called Prayer Tunnel, and is named for the Eskimo practice of solo meditation within a tunnel of ice blocks. This is said to be a means of overcoming demons within, and in my musical rendering it takes the form of an unaccompanied alto flute solo. The flute begins rather angrily, full of tension, but in the course of the solo passage manages to slowly unwind. The percussionist then plays the exact same music the alto flute had played....on seven tuned cymbals. Toward the end, the alto flute re-enters, its original meditation having fused with its mirror. Kiva represents the circular, subterranean pit in which the Anasazi practiced their religion, a form of which still can be found in the Hopi tribes of the American southwest. These are not spaces for solo meditation, but rather a group meeting place in which only the sanctified are permitted. After an introductory invocation (dove call), the music begins. At first, it is flowing, in a repetitive double-five meter. It then traces several sections, with metric shifts forcing the pulse to race faster and faster, until it halves itself in the coda and returns to the exact pulse of the beginning. The flutist here uses the C flute, and the percussionist plays on both pitched (marimba) and unpitched instruments (various drums and struck sources). Zendo is the meditation room used by Zen Buddhists. My music begins with another invocation (wind chimes, temple cup gongs, and temple blocks), then moves on to a slow subject stated by the flute. The subject is taken up by the vibraphone, and after several modulations and tempo changes, the flutist takes up the piccolo. The music continues higher and higher, and faster and faster (Zen meditation is NOT all about becoming lost!) until it breaks free at the very end. The percussionist is put through his paces in this movement, having to reach a staggering number of instruments in a short time. Spirit Realms was commissioned by, and is dedicated to, the Armstrong Duo. -- Dan Welcher.
SKU: CL.121-0217-00
8 Player Four Movements playable as a Suite or individual pieces. I. Windstone II. Drone Dance III. Distant Songs and Incantations IV. Visions and Jubilations Equipment needed on various Movements: Instrumentation: P1-Bells; P2-Xylophone, Triangle; P3-Marimba, Maracas; P4-Chimes, sleigh balls; P5-Vibraphone; P6-Timpani (4), Triangle; P7-Snare Drum, Wind Chime, Sleigh Bells; P8-Suspended Cymbal, Tom-Toms (4), Temple Blocks (5).
SKU: PR.164002480
UPC: 680160038237.
SKU: PR.416414210
UPC: 680160602049. 8.5 x 11 inches.
Composed for violinist Baird Dodge in 1995-97, SLEEP is a 25-minute concerto in three movements. Thefirst movement (Twitching) is dramatic in character, full of contrasts, pitting the violin against the orchestra in more or less romantic fashion. The second (Breathing) is comprised of overlapping layers of simple harmonies accompanying a freely evolving, lyrical melody in the violin. In the third movement (Sweating), the soloist and ensemble initially work together to create a rising line. They soon diverge, and an increasing layering of multiple lines throughout the ensemble leads to a very high point of density which is then abruptly cut off by the virtuosic frenzy in the violin which ends the work.
SKU: PR.41641421L
UPC: 680160602056. 11 x 17 inches.