Percussion Ensemble - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.823090

Composed by James Pierpoint. Arranged by Clark Cothern. Christmas,Folk,Traditional. Score and parts. 17 pages. Clark Cothern #2988497. Published by Clark Cothern (A0.823090).

This percussion ensemble arrangement sounds like a music box and fuels the imagination. You can hear this arrangement on the album, A Small Ensemble Christmas by D.D.T. Brahms. This percussion ensemble (Glockenspiel, Marimba, Xylophone, Vibraphone) replicates an old fashioned music machine in which various instruments are triggered by a punched paper roll. This arrangement is challenging and will require advanced players. It's sure to be a hit at your Christmas concert.

Percussion Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.997221

Composed by Christian Price. Latin. Score and parts. 59 pages. Chris Price Composition #5209919. Published by Chris Price Composition (A0.997221).

Boxed is a fun percussion ensemble piece written for Whitworth University's percussion ensemble.

This piece features many fun rhythmic and melodic lines to improve your students' playing ability.

Percussion Ensemble - Digital Download

SKU: A0.952664

Composed by Christopher Shultis. 20th Century,Instructional,Standards. Score and parts. 74 pages. American Composers Alliance Inc. #4613527. Published by American Composers Alliance Inc. (A0.952664).

A collection of early works and writings for various ensembles (mostly centered around percussion) as collected by the composer.

Musical Works:

1. motion/less for percussion solo
2. Oneiro for percussion trio
3. 64 Statements re and not re Child of Tree for solo percussion and audio tapes
4. Pastorale for solo percussioin and Dancer
5. Friends, for piano, crotales, and narrator
6. Three Short Pieces
      i. Five, brass quintet
      ii. Four interludes from Downward Facing Dog, for piano solo
      iii. For Frank Bowen, solo flute
7. Decline of the West, for female narrator and all-male heavy-metal band
8. Metaphysics, for spoken voice and boom boxes, requiring 7 assistants
9. Faith, for voice or any instrument
10. Hope, for hand percussion, guitars, and voices (Version 2 of Decline of the West, when performed as part of the opera, Faith, Hope, and Love
11. Love, for Seven Performers
12. Do something/Do something else, for any number of performers
13. Gesturing hands, for solo theremin
14. Blindness, for solo marimba
15. Written on the body, for musicians and dancers

Texts:

1. Synesthesia and the Re-integration of the Senses
2. Experiment and Revolution, a primary role of percussion in American music
3. The Politics of Improvisation

Percussion Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.823104

Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Clark Cothern. Christmas. Score and parts. 11 pages. Clark Cothern #3038949. Published by Clark Cothern (A0.823104).

As heard on the album, A Small Ensemble Christmas, by DDT Brahms. This music box-like arrangement of The Holly And The Ivy for Bells, Xylophone, Marimba and Vibraphone is accessible to intermediate players on up. There are several of these music box arrangements for percussion ensemble. You might consider putting three or four of them together as a suite. (Other titles from DDT Brahms' album with the music box style include: Frosty the Snowman, Jingle Bells, Ding Dong Merrily On High, and I Saw Three Ships.)

Percussion Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.966106

Composed by John Trie. Pop,Rock,World. Score and parts. 6 pages. John Trie #34413. Published by john Trie (A0.966106).

Opus 65 by John Trie. Horn, Music box, Percussion, Guitar, Upright bass.

Percussion Ensemble - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.823103

Composed by Lewis Redner. Arranged by Clark Cothern. Christmas. Score and parts. 8 pages. Clark Cothern #3038911. Published by Clark Cothern (A0.823103).

This music box-like arrangement of O Little Town Of Bethlehem for Xylophone, Marimba and Vibraphone features some interesting changes in time signatures. Early Intermediate level on up.

Percussion Ensemble - Digital Download

SKU: A0.962290

Composed by Sergio Roberto de Oliveira (1970 - 2017). 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and parts. 64 pages. Sergio Roberto de Oliveira #2613315. Published by Sergio Roberto de Oliveira (A0.962290).

Falls House Press has published his works  Faces and Mot pour Laura in the United States. Various articles in specialized journals and sites have cited the composer, such as the Flutist Quarterly (Circus Brasilis - The flute music of Sergio Roberto de Oliveira), Early Music America (Something New for Early Music), Andante.com (The heirs of Villa-Lobos), 21st Century Music, Musicabrasileira.org, etc. Sergio Roberto de Oliveira has frequently been invited to lecture at American universities, and has spoken at more than a dozen institutions including Princeton and Duke. In 2009 he was Artist-in-Residence at Duke University. In addition the USA and the UK, Oliveira's music has also been played in many countries, with invitations for concerts exclusively with his music in México, Italy and Holland (Amsterdam).  The Spanish Magazine Sonograma has published 2 interviews with Sergio.

Sergio is the founder and a member of the group of composers Prelúdio 21. The group is one of the most active worldwide. It holds a distinguished place in Brazilian contemporary music, having been active for 15 consecutive seasons, with a permanent series of monthly concerts since 2008. In 2011 the group released the CD String Quartets, with performances by the Quarteto Radamés Gnattali. Oliveira is also a member of the group of composers Vox Novus, based in New York.

To commemorate 15 years of activity as a composer, Oliveira released a box set with 4 CDs, as well as a CD with composer Mark Hagerty, and produced the series QUINZE, with 13 concerts including his works, between July and October of 2012.  More than 130 musicians, including 28 composers, participated of QUINZE (CDs and series).

His discography includes 14 CDs as producer, 14 as composer, 22 as general producer, 2 as arranger and 2 as pianist. His catalog of compositions includes approximately 115 works for various ensembles, including Symphony Orchestra.  

Sergio Roberto de Oliveira is a member of the Latin Academy of the Arts and Science of Recording.

He died from pancreatic cancer in 2017.

Percussion Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.835781

Composed by Paul Burnell. Contemporary. Score and parts. 6 pages. Paul Burnell #3222647. Published by Paul Burnell (A0.835781).

Composed 2015. One of a series of fourteen accompaniments to texts published between 1886-1899

Duration 4:45 approx.

For percussion (three players) and narrator

Narrator text - from 'Le Horla' by Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893), published 1887.  English translation by Jonathan Sturges (1864–1911) published 1890.

Guy de Maupassant was a French writer, remembered as a master of the short story.  It has been suggested that the word horla is a blending of the French words hors (outside) and là (there) and the title can be interpreted as the what’s out there.

Percussion: Wind wand or bullroarer and two guiros (or similar). Players read from the score.

Narrator cues are shown in the score in boxed text and below in square brackets.  Between rehearsal letters [D] and [H] the percussionists maintain tempo; the narrator cues are for guidance only.

Percussion Ensemble - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.576482

Composed by David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,Contemporary,Jazz. Score and parts. 27 pages. David Warin Solomons #26925. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.576482).

A mad professor I invented during my childhood has been given fictional responsibility for some of my more outside the box compositions. I called him Professor Burble; he was probably inspired by TV cartoons in the 1960s.... The first Invention was for guitar solo (published by Productions d'Oz), the third one one was for two wind instruments (published by Musik Fabrik), and this one - number 4 - is for piano, strings, gong, cymbal, bass drum and side drum. It is in a relentless 5/4 rhythm and starts with a fugato idea on piano and strings (including several divisi moments), with gongs, cymbal and snare drums beginning about a minute into the piece.