Chamber Music Percussion Quartet SKU: PO.PE079S
Composed by Gareth Farr. Sws. Full score. Composed 2003. Promethean Editions #PE079S. Published by Promethean Editions (PO.PE079S). ISBN 9781877218790.
Little Sea Gongs (1997) is a fantastic option for percussion quartets looking to incorporate elements of the Pacific into their repertoire. A miniature companion-piece to Farr's orchestral work From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs (PE020), the drumming style in Little Sea Gongs is very much inspired by Rarotongan log drumming. It is incessantly fast, with its chatty, murmured rhythms being passed around in call-and-response style as the work rises in waves of extreme volume.
