Bright Light Dark Shadows
General Info
Year of Publication: 2016
Publisher: C. Alan
Difficulty: Intermediate to Advanced
Duration: 00:11:25
Cost: $60.00
Instrumentation
Player 1: glockenspiel, tam-tam, tambourine, crash cymbals
Player 2: crotales, chimes
Player 3: vibraphone & suspended cymbal
Player 4: vibraphone & suspended cymbal
Player 5: 4.3-octave marimba & triangle
Player 6: 4.3-octave marimba & triangle
Player 7: 4.6-octave marimba & triangle & large crash cymbal
Player 8: 5-octave marimba & triangle & medium crash cymbal
Player 9: electric guitar with fixed tuning laid flat, concert bass drum, drum set, brake drum, medium woodblock, mounted sleigh bells
Description
Bright Light - Dark Shadows by Caleb Pickering is a work for 9 percussionists influenced by a poem by Charles Bukowski called "We Must." This exciting work explores light and darkness with a variety of textures and tonalities.
Recent Performance
James Madison University Percussion Ensemble
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Solos
[A]tudes, 26 Advanced Studies for Snare Drum (Volume 1)
[A]tudes, 26 Advanced Studies for Snare Drum (Volume 2)
An Assembly of Outrage - Snare Drum
Heavy Binary - Snare Drum
Non-Prophets - Snare Drum
Tinfoil - Multiple Percussion
Shred - Multiple Percussion
Drift- Marimba
Etude in D Minor (Pickering)- Marimba
Malice- Marimba
Paradigm (Pickering)- Marimba
Prelude in C Major (Pickering)- Marimba
Rhapsody Bacchanale- Marimba
Ensemble
21 Grams - Percussion 10
Beneath - Percussion Nonet
Bright Light - Dark Shadows - Percussion Nonet
Carve into me what you call love - Percussion Nonet
Dreadnought - Percussion 11
Electro-Phantasm - Percussion sextet
Post-Sunrise - Percussion Quintet]]
Powder Keg - Mallet Quartet
Suadela - Percussion Sextet