Percussion Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1012290

Composed by Chris Kamerling. Contemporary,Standards. Score and parts. 24 pages. Phantom K Music #6642767. Published by Phantom K Music (A0.1012290).

Are you searching for something different for your percussion ensemble? Do you not have enough players to utilize keyboard percussion? Have you ever wanted to do something with narrator, but haven't had the chance? Well, I've got a piece for you! This piece is for four percussionists and a single narrator. The sound hearkens back to the beatnik poets of the 1960s! This is an exploration of sound for your percussionists, which allows them to use varied instruments from the snare drum to flower pots! I hope you enjoy Ambrosian Wish for percussion ensemble and narrator. Chris Kamerling can be found on Facebook at www.facebook.com/kamerlingcomposer; his website is www.chriskamerling.com; and his YouTube channel is www.youtube.com/user/ckamerling93. You are always welcome to contact Mr. Kamerling by email at phantomkmusic@gmail.com 

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 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.835740

Composed by Paul Burnell. Contemporary. Score and parts. 7 pages. Paul Burnell #511023. Published by Paul Burnell (A0.835740).

Composed 2015. One of a series of fourteen accompaniments to texts published between 1896-1899. Duration 7:30 approx. For vibraphone or cimbalom or other instruments, 3 gongs, bass drum and narrator.  The piece may be performed without narrator. Narrator text, from 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, pubished in 1892.

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: A0.835743

Composed by Paul Burnell. Contemporary. Score and parts. 23 pages. Paul Burnell #511043. Published by Paul Burnell (A0.835743).

Composed 2010, revised 2014. One of a series of fourteen accompaniments to texts published between 1886-1899. Text: ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).
For narrator (amplified if necessary), flutes (and/or tenor/bass recorders), clarinets, muted strings, percussion.
Programme note: ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ was written by Oscar Wilde in France on release from Reading Gaol in 1897 after being sentenced to two years hard labour. During his imprisonment Charles Thomas Wooldridge, who had been convicted of murdering his wife, was hanged. The poem was published in 1898 under the name C.3.3., which stood for cell block C, landing 3, cell 3. The text is a mixture of the first and second versions of Wilde’s poem.