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[[Austin Theriot]]
== General Info ==
Year: 2020 <br/>
Publisher: OU Percussion Press <br/>
Difficulty: Advanced   <br/>
Duration: 00:13:10 <br/>
Cost: $60.00 <br/>

== Instrumentation ==
Player 1: [[Glockenspiel]] <br/>
Player 2: [[Crotales]] <br/>
Player 3: [[Xylophone]] & [[Splash Cymbal]] & 3 [[Tom Tom]] <br/>
Player 4: [[Vibraphone]] 1 & [[Tam-Tam]](shared)<br/>
Player 5: [[Vibraphone]] 2 & [[Tam-Tam]](shared)<br/>
Player 6: [[Marimba]] 1 (5-octave)
Player 7: [[Marimba]] 2 (5-octave)
Player 8: [[Marimba]] 3 (5-octave)
Player 9: [[Marimba]] 4 (5-octave)
Player 10: [[Chimes]] & [[Bass Drum]] <br/>
Player 11: [[Claves]] & [[Bell Tree]] <br/>
Player 12: [[Suspended Cymbal]] <br/>
Player 13: [[Mark Tree]] & [[Egg Shaker]] & [[Suspended Cymbal]] <br/>
Player 14: [[Triangle]] & [[Suspended Cymbal]] & 3 [[Timpani]] <br/>

== Program Notes ==
Cyclus is a product of my long-standing interest in musical canons, puzzles, fractals, and mathematical patterns. I'm fascinated with musical ideas that seem to go somewhere only to begin again where they started, and I admire music that grows organically out of a single, small idea into something larger than itself. Cyclus comprises five sections played without pause, each centered around a portion of a single musical canon. This canon, which I wrote beforehand, is never explicitly state in the piece, but each movement explores a section of its melody. The melody itself has some interesting characteristics: when played backwards and upside-down, it harmonizes itself. Additionally, as the melody progresses, it gradually cycles through every key before ending back where it started, like a musical Möbius strip. This canon is the seed from which the rest of the piece grows. I hope that the interested musician will look for the numerous musical "games" and canonic constructions in the piece, but I trust that the music stands quite strongly in its own right – no audience should need to know its logic to perceive its heart.

== Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
{{Theriot, Austin Works}}

== Reference ==

[[Category:Percussion Ensemble Works]]
[[Category:Percussion 14 Works]]
[[Category:Percussion 12+ Works]]