PERCUSSION

Johanna Beyer

General Info

Year: December 1935
Duration: c. 12:07
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Smith Publications
Cost: Score and Parts - $0.00   |   Score Only - $0.00

Movements

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Instrumentation

Instrumentation is unspecified.
9 percussionists

Program Notes

The first known complete performance of PERCUSSION was performed by the Southern Illinois University Carbondale Percussion Group (SIUCPG), conducted by Ron Coulter, at the 5th Annual Outside the Box New Music Festival (Carbondale, Illinois) on 3 April 2011. That program included world premiers of Beyer’s PERCUSSION, Strive, Horizons, and Daniel Kessner’s A Knocktet. As well as rare performances of Colin McPhee’s Kachapi Mas, Lou Harrison’s Oriental, Franziska Boas’ Changing Tensions, and Jose Ardevol’s Preludio a 11.

This is a five movement work for nine players and unspecified instrumentation. Beyer's composition, IV, is actually the fourth movement of this work. The complete work, PERCUSSION, is published by Smith Publications.

Commercial Discography

ORIGINS: forgotten percussion works, vol. 1 https://percussionartensemble.bandcamp.com/album/origins-forgotten-percussion-works-vol-1

Recent Performances

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Works for Percussion by this Composer

IV - (IV is the fourth movement of the composition, PERCUSSION)
Horizons - for 14 percussionists
March - Percussion Sextet
PERCUSSION - Percussion Nonet
Percussion Suite - Percussion Quintet
Percussion, op.14 - Percussion Sextet
Strive - Percussion Octet
Three Movements for Percussion - Percussion Ensemble
Waltz for Percussion - Percussion Ensemble

Additional Resources

Coulter, Ron. "Forgotten Percussion Works: Johanna Magdalena Beyer" Percussive Notes Online Research Edition, Vol. 1, pgs. 5-23, December 2016.