Difference between revisions of "Three Movements for Percussion (Beyer)"

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General Info

Year of Published: 1939
Publisher: Soundings
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Duration: 00:12:00
Cost: Score and Parts - $0.00 | Score Only - $0.00

Movements

1. Restless
2. Endless
3. Tactless

Instrumentation

Tuned Percussion: Glockenspiel & Timpani
Drums: Bass Drum & Snare Drum & Tom Tom
Cymbals: Cymbals α2 & Gong
Auxiliary Percussion: Triangle & Tambourine & Wood Block & 2 Triangles & Wood Blocks & lion's roar

Program Notes

The Three Movements for Percussion, whose individual movement names provide the title of this disc—Restless, Endless, Tactless—was dedicated to Cage and is perhaps the most experimental of all of her percussion pieces. “Restless” is a stern and somewhat ascetic waltz that is discernibly palindromic, that is to say it is identical forward and backward. “Endless,” which at ten minutes is longer than any other movement (or full work) included on this disc, is a study in endurance in which an almost metronomic tapping on the woodblock is interrupted irregularly by silences and groans from bass drum, suspended cymbal, and lion’s roar. In “Tactless,” a quintuple meter is made to sound even more off-balance by various counter-rhythms and metrical interruptions.

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Commercial Discography

Recent Performances

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Works for Percussion by this Composer

IV - (IV is the fourth movement of the composition, PERCUSSION)
Horizons - 14 Players
March - 6 Players
PERCUSSION - 9 Players
Percussion Suite - 5 Players
Percussion, op.14 - 6 Players
Strive - 8 Players
Three Movements for Percussion (Beyer) - Percussion Ensemble
Waltz for Percussion - Percussion Ensemble

Additional Resources

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 ==Movements==
-. Restless
+. Restless <br/>
-. Endless
+. Endless <br/>
-. Tactless
+. Tactless <br/>
 == Instrumentation ==
+Tuned Percussion: [[Glockenspiel]] & [[Timpani]] <br/>
-[[bass drum]], [[snare drum]], [[tom-tom]], [[cymbals α2]], [[gong]], [[bells]], [[triangle]], [[tambourine]], [[wood block]], [[timpani]](2), [[triangle]]s(2), wood blocks(2), [[lion's roar]]
+Drums: [[Bass Drum]] & [[Snare Drum]] & [[Tom Tom]] <br/>
+Cymbals: [[Cymbals α2]] & [[Gong]] <br/>
+Auxiliary Percussion:  [[Triangle]] & [[Tambourine]] & [[Wood Block]] & 2 [[Triangle]]s & [[Wood Blocks]] & [[lion's roar]] <br/>
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