Search results

Jump to navigation Jump to search
  • ...e in Dallas in June, 2014 in response to a commission from a consortium of percussion ensembles from The New England Conservatory, Frank Epstein, Director; South ...chestra (1950). It is also a companion to my own previous composition for percussion ensemble, El día de los muertos (2006). El día de los muertos and Xochiq
    9 KB (1,308 words) - 00:49, 28 February 2022
  • ...iss, and Henry Cowell. While teaching in Seattle (1938–40), Cage organized percussion ensembles to perform his compositions. He also experimented with works for ...n music and its concepts of meaningful sound. The concert he gave with his percussion ensemble at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1943 marked the fi
    6 KB (827 words) - 23:38, 17 January 2022
  • ...3 [[Tam Tams]] & 3 [[Chinese Cymbals]] & 3 [[Boobams]] & [[Timbales]] & 7 Tuned [[Cowbells]] & 2 [[Chinese Gongs]] & [[Daiko Drum]] <br/> ...ymbals]] & [[Guiro]] & 3 [[Tom Toms]] & [[Boobam]] & 2 [[Wood Blocks]] & 5 Tuned [[Cowbells]] & [[Daiko Drum]] <br/>
    4 KB (623 words) - 23:04, 11 April 2022
  • [[multi-percussion]]: [[marimba]], [[tuned gongs]], [[Mark tree]], [[temple blocks]], [[crotales]]<br> ...r Marimba and Percussion on the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Percussion Ensemble CD, “Sketches”.
    3 KB (457 words) - 00:03, 7 June 2012
  • ...musically engaging and technically challenging works for tuned percussion instruments. The performance of these works, whilst technically challenging, should als Each of the tuned percussion parts were written to develop or highlight a particular challenging techniq
    3 KB (470 words) - 01:01, 8 September 2022
  • ...ynor Carroll, that details the requirements and assignments of timpani and percussion in more than 3,000 works from the symphonic literature. Catalogs the sympho -Specifies if the composition includes percussion and the number of players required <br/>
    2 KB (231 words) - 23:17, 26 January 2023
  • Player II: 8 tuned high drums (or 8 tom-toms of different indeterminate pitches), 5 [[temple b Player III: 5 metal sounds (not tuned but ringing in nature), glockenspiel, 5 temple blocks, [[susp cym]], [[teno
    4 KB (585 words) - 00:40, 25 April 2022
  • ...[[Graduated Drums]], 7 tuned Asian [[Gongs]], 2 [[Temple Bowls]], 12 small tuned Asian Gongs, [[Tam-tams]], [[Cowbells]], [[Suspended Cymbal]], [[Crotales]] Premiere Information: October 6, 2008, Los Angeles, CA, Lynn Vartan, percussion, John Schneider, guitar, Southwest Chamber Music concert, Colburn School, L
    3 KB (492 words) - 03:00, 7 November 2013
  • [[Multiple Percussion]]: five tuned drums<br> XY is a percussion solo for five tuned drums. In XY, the right and left hand of the performer get louder and softe
    3 KB (571 words) - 02:41, 2 March 2015
  • The Aluphone is a tuned percussion instrument consisting of aluminum bells that are struck with a mallet to pr [[Category:Percussion Instruments]]
    2 KB (394 words) - 00:58, 28 December 2021
  • ...your Love, written for over 100 instruments divided into four microtonally tuned groups. Under the baton of composer/conductor John Adams, The Ensemble Mode ...res has led him to create chamber works that distort traditional classical instruments with electronic effects and guitar pedals, including Potassium for the Kron
    7 KB (1,107 words) - 13:31, 22 May 2015
  • Despite being a relatively new member of the percussion family, steelpan tuning techniques have advanced rapidly. Strobe tuners are ...) and it is quite common that steelbands arrange to have their instruments tuned once or twice a year. A tuner must have great skill in their work to manage
    2 KB (354 words) - 00:25, 4 November 2022
  • Subtitle: Concerto for percussion and orchestra <br/> ====Percussion====
    5 KB (794 words) - 00:44, 28 December 2021
  • ...os eight hands in a microtonal tuning system, Changes (1985) for six harps tuned a sixth of a semitone apart, Critical Band (1988) for variable instrumentat == Works for Percussion ==
    6 KB (892 words) - 01:13, 29 November 2017
  • ...er, single-head tom-toms. Octo-bans were originally grouped in melodically-tuned sets of eight, hence the name, in reference to octave and from octo meaning The 6" diameter shells can be tuned melodically and are available in low-and high-pitch sets.
    2 KB (242 words) - 03:43, 10 November 2021
  • ...l cusp between a harmony and a timbre that occurs when tones are precisely tuned. Some examples of works deploying these techniques include: Ecosphere, deve ...ion, New Dynamic, New World, Nonesuch, and Tzadik labels. Recent works for instruments and electronics are available on Ecosphere a portrait CD/DVD on EMF, and A
    6 KB (809 words) - 02:13, 9 July 2018
  • UFO for solo percussion and orchestra was commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra through a ...two brief interludes entitled “Traveling Music” and “???” during which the percussion soloist moves through the audience and around the stage while performing sl
    5 KB (626 words) - 03:06, 16 February 2023
  • ...skin was lapped.<ref>Edmund A., Bowles,ed. John H., Beck. Encyclopedia of Percussion. New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995. </ref> ...er to transport. <ref>Edmund A., Bowles,ed. John H., Beck. Encyclopedia of Percussion. New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995. </ref>
    12 KB (1,643 words) - 01:01, 28 December 2021
  • ...second section features works by well known composers arranged for mallet instruments. The final section is a technical study of elementary exercises including b ...he following music was selected on the basis of its adaptability to mallet instruments and for the aesthetic quality of each work. By perfecting each of the follo
    4 KB (601 words) - 01:18, 2 October 2023
  • ...s]], [[jingle sticks]], [[triangles]](3), [[bass drum]], [[cymbals α2]], [[tuned tom-toms]](4), [[whistles]](2), [[maracas]]<br> be performed in various combinations, requires large array of percussion instruments.<ref>http://www.honeyrock.net/duet-mp.htm#mpduet3</ref>
    5 KB (766 words) - 02:47, 21 March 2013

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)