Dreams
General Info
Publisher: Dutch Music Partners
Difficulty: Intermediate to Advanced
Duration: 00:38:00
Cost: €222.95
Instrumentation
Player 1: Glockenspiel & Xylophone & Whip
Player 2: Vibraphone
Player 3: Xylophone
Player 4: Marimba
Player 5: Timpani
Player 6: Temple Blocks & Triangle & Brake Drum & Cabasa
Player 7: Suspended Cymbal (Small) & Chinese Cymbal & Cowbell & Wood Block & Maracas & Sleigh Bells & Wind Chimes & Gong & Triangle
Player 8: Snare Drum & Hi Hat & Cowbell
Player 9: Side Drum & Suspended Cymbal (Medium) & Cabasa
Player 10: Side Drum & Tom TOm & Triangle & Claves & Maracas & Shaker & Whip
Player 11: Chimes & Timbales & Side Drum & Vibraslap & Tom Tom
Player 12: Bongos & Tom Tom & Djembe
Player 13: Congas & Hand Cymbals & Maracas & Tambourine
Player 14: Tam Tam & Tom Tom & Guiro & Maracas & Suspended Cymbal
Player 15: Bass Drum & Tenor Drum & [Castanets]] & Vibraslap
Player 16: Bass Drum
Other Instrument
Player 1: Harp
Player 2: Accordion
Choir
Soprano & Alto & Tenor & Bass
Description
Dreams is a concert work for 16 percussionists, harp, accordion and choir. When composing Dreams, Ruud Mourik was inspired by various great symphonic composers. It includes characteristic themes from symphonies by Beethoven, Shostakowitch and Stravinsky. The rich sound idiom also has a symphonic feel. The almost absurd changes in styles and themes take the listener into a dream where almost anything is possible. The addition of the textless choir part also makes the whole thing even more resemble a surreal dream. The composer leaves what exactly happens in that dream to the listener. Dreams is suitable as a ballet accompaniment, where each part forms a new experience for the dreamer... or is there still a common thread to be discovered somewhere?
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Large Ensemble
The Bells (Mourik) - Percussion 15
Metamorphosis - Timpani; Percussion 16
Mallet Ensemble
Lockdown - Mallet Sextet
With Other Instruments
Bon bini Festival - Percussion 19; Flute
Dreams - Percussion 16; Harp; Accordion; Choir
Dreams to Remember - Percussion 14; Harp; Accordion; Choir
Fantasy Dream - Percussion 18; Harp; Accordion
Messy Dream - Percussion 18; Harp; Accordion
Strange Dream - Percussion 17; Accordion