Aboriginal Dreams
General Info
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Level: Advanced
Duration: 00:11:50
Commissioner: Rick Minnotte and the Mt. Lebanon High School Percussion Ensemble
Cost: Score and Parts $60.00 | Score Only $15.00
Movement
Movement 1: Ritual
Movement 2: Rain
Movement 3: Sacred Earth
Movement 4: Pintubi Dance
Movement 5: Fire
Instrumentation
Player 1: Glockenspiel & Vibraslap
Player 2: Xylophone & Singing Bowls
Player 3: Vibraphone
Player 4: Marimba(4-octave) & Wind Chimes
Player 5: Marimba(5-octave)
Player 6: Chimes & Woodblock
Player 7: 5 Timpani
Player 8: Wind Chimes & Snare Drum & Bongos & Suspended Cymbal & Woodblock
Player 9: Log Drum & Temple Blocks & Suspended Cymbal & Bass Drum & Rainstick
Player 10: 5 Tom-toms & Anvil & Gong & Claves & Rainstick
Player 11: Tambourine & Cowbell & Suspended Cymbal & Triangle & Large Drum Head & Rainstick & Congas & Woodblock & Anvil
Player 12: 2 Suspended Cymbal & Crash Cymbals & Woodblock & Wind Chimes & Triangle & Brake Drum & Rainstick & Gong
Player 13: Sizzle Cymbal & 2 Suspended Cymbals & Tambourine & Brake Drum & Water Gong & Temple Blocks
Program Notes
The five-movement Aboriginal Dreams offers brief glimpses of the Aboriginal culture. The first movement, Ritual, is introduced with powerful triplets and works into a sixteenth feel often breaking into passages of syncopated unison rhythms. The second and shortest movement, Rain, as the title suggests, starts gently and ripples with fast layered triplets ending as gently as it starts. The third movement is called Sacred Earth, Sacred Sky and has a peaceful, relaxed character loaded with rich harmonies in the mallet instruments supported by cymbal effects in the battery. Pintubi Dance is next and uses fun techniques such as bursts of thirty-second-notes and hand clapping to enhance the head-bobbing groove. The piece finishes with a movement appropriately named Fire. It starts with an out-of-meter timpani solo and explodes into a fast, primal melody. As the movement surges forth, the phrases get passed between the mallets, timpani, and battery leading to a huge four-note ending.
Recent Performance
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Aboriginal Dreams - Percussion Ensemble (13)