A Knocktet

Daniel Kessner

General Info

Year of Published: 2010
Publisher: Universal Edition
Duration: 00:05:00
Cost: €7.95

Instrumentation

Players 1 & 2 (Small Drums): These should be some combination of bongos, timbales, and/or very small tom-toms.
Players 3 & 4 (Wood Instruments): Rhese should be chosen from wood blocks, temple blocks, and/or log drum.
Players 5 & 6 (Metal Instruments): recommended choices include cowbells, almglocken, metal plates, even inexpensive non-stick cookware.
Players 7 & 8 (Large Drums): These may include larger tom-toms, tenor drum, congas, small bass drum.

Description

This work for eight percussionists is designed to be performed with whatever unpitched instruments are available, with many possibilities. Choices of instruments: the eight players each choose three instruments (low, medium, high). Within each pair of players, for example Small Drums 1 & 2, the first should choose generally higher-pitched instruments than the second, but some overlap between the two is expected.

Works for Percussion by this Composer

Arabesque – Vibraphone; Saxophone
Chamber Concerto No. 2 (Ensemble) – Percussion (10); Marimba
Chamber Concerto No. 2 (Solo) – Percussion Ensemble
Continuum – Marimba
Equali II – Percussion Trio; Piano; Celesta
Equali VI – Percussion Quintet; Marimba
Incantations – Multiple Percussion; Trombone
Intercurrence: version for percussion and electronic tape – Multiple Percussion; With Tape
Modular Suite for Percussion Ensemble - Percussion Sextet
Sonata for Four Timpani – Timpani
The Bells of Poe – Percussion Quartet