Percussion Ensemble - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1013929 Composed by Tsoof Baras. Concert,Contemporary,Instructional,Standards. Score and parts. 16 pages. Tsoof Baras #6663587. Published by Tsoof Baras (A0.1013929). Players - 4Instrumentation - Body Percussion‘Up the Body and Down the Page’ is a body percussion piece for percussion quartet. This piece involves the playing of one’s body as an instrument. For musicians, this piece is short, easy to setup, exciting for the crowd, a bit of a workout, fun to play and a challenge.My aim for this piece was to emulate the concept of ‘seeing sounds’ by only creating sound in the light. It was a challenge to get the lighting effect that provided us with a sharp difference between light and dark.Because it is such a physical piece, I would encourage the performers to add in choreography and to exercise the power of choice in terms of sticking (‘handings’ and ‘footings’) and the choice between standing and sitting. The performers may also experiment with visual mediums like talcum powder and other sound choices like using toy hammers instead of hands and choosing extremely thick shoes.

Percussion Ensemble - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.972638 Composed by James Siddons. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary. Score and parts. 14 pages. James Siddons Music and Writings #3025013. Published by James Siddons Music and Writings (A0.972638). Dance of the Wind-Up Toys is for one clarinet in Bb, one cello, percussionist(s), and mime dancer(s). This work may be performed by instruments only; the percussion part being performed by one, two, or three performers.If a mime performer, or one or more dancers, also perform, the instrumental ensemble must be on the stage with them. The mime or dancer(s) enter the stage at measure 20 and either 1) perform until the end (m. 91), or 2) perform from m. 20 to m. 41, then leave the stage, and then return at m. 67. Costumes: the instrumentalists may be in costume as well as the performers, if desired. See the title page for suggestions. This piece is meant to be energetic, theatrical, and fun to perform as well as to watch.Program Note Dance of the Wind-Up Toys was composed in April-May 1968, when composer James Siddons was 19 years old. It was inspired by mime performers as well as the mechanical toys common in the early twentieth century.

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 solo2. Oneiro for percussion trio3. 64 Statements re and not re Child of Tree for solo percussion and audio tapes4. Pastorale for solo percussioin and Dancer5. Friends, for piano, crotales, and narrator6. Three Short Pieces      i. Five, brass quintet      ii. Four interludes from Downward Facing Dog, for piano solo      iii. For Frank Bowen, solo flute7. Decline of the West, for female narrator and all-male heavy-metal band8. Metaphysics, for spoken voice and boom boxes, requiring 7 assistants9. Faith, for voice or any instrument10. Hope, for hand percussion, guitars, and voices (Version 2 of Decline of the West, when performed as part of the opera, Faith, Hope, and Love11. Love, for Seven Performers12. Do something/Do something else, for any number of performers13. Gesturing hands, for solo theremin14. Blindness, for solo marimba15. Written on the body, for musicians and dancersTexts:1. Synesthesia and the Re-integration of the Senses2. Experiment and Revolution, a primary role of percussion in American music3. The Politics of Improvisation

Percussion Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.972637 Composed by James Siddons. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and parts. 4 pages. James Siddons Music and Writings #3025021. Published by James Siddons Music and Writings (A0.972637). This is the percussion part for Dance of the Wind-Up Toys by James Siddons. It shows the hi-hat, cymbal, and snare drum. This part may be played by one, two, or three percussionists, and is to be used in conjunction with the full score, for clarinet, cello, mime or dancer(s), and this percussion part. For full score, see SMP item number SO 200939.

Percussion Ensemble - Digital Download SKU: A0.992833 Composed by Danny Buckley. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and parts. 55 pages. Danny Buckley #3619939. Published by Danny Buckley (A0.992833). My collection of 10 works for Percussion ensemble based off of paintings by Salvador Dali.