Clapping Music Variations
General Info
Publisher: Alfred Music
Difficulty: Advanced
Cost: $19.95
Instrumentation
Player 1: Hi-Hat & Snare Drum & Tenor Drum & Kick Drum & Sizzle Cymbal
Player 2: Hi-Hat & Snare Drum & Tenor Drum & Kick Drum
Player 3: Vibraphone
Player 4: Vibraphone
Player 5: Hi Pitched Bell (with clapper), Marimba
Player 6: Low Pitched Bell (with clapper), Marimba
Player 7: Crotales
Player 8: Glockenspiel
Player 9: Marimba
Player 10: Marimba
Player 11: Xylophone & Gong
Player 12: Hammered Dulcimer
Description
Variations upon Steve Reich's Clapping Music. This is a musically and intellectually intriguing exploration of the rhythmic motives of Clapping Music. Glenn Kotche uses numerous percussive textures to highlight the rhythmic interplay of the original rhythms.
Recent Performance
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Steve Reich Works
Drumming - Percussion Ensemble (9); Voice; Piccolo
Mallet Quartet - Percussion Quartet, Mallet Ensemble
Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ - Percussion Quartet; Voices; Organ
Music for Pieces of Wood - Percussion Quintet
Nagoya Marimbas - Marimba Duo
Piano Phase - Marimba Duo
Sextet - Percussion Quartet; Piano (2)
Six Marimbas - Percussion Sextet
Glenn Kotche Works
Anomaly Concerto for Drumset and String Orchestra - Drumset, Orchestra
Anomaly Mvt. 7 for Marimba Duo - Percussion Duo - Marimba Duo
Calling Glenn - Percussion Trio, Electronics
Cave Dance - Snare Drum
Cheju - Multiple Percussion, Electronics
Chong Ji - Orchestra Bells
Clapping Music Variations - Percussion Ensemble (12)
Drumkit Quartets - Percussion Quartet
Fantasy on a Shona Theme - Vibraphone or Marimba
Fantasy on the Fifth - Drumset
Hunting the Lion - Percussion Quartet
Hush - Percussion Ensemble (10), Chorus
Incline on the Inside - Multiple Percussion, Electronics
Infinite Tree - Drumset, Orchestra
Mask - Vibraphone, with Tape
Mobile for Multiple Percussion - Multiple Percussion, with Tape
Monkey Chant - Drumset
Next: 18 Drumkit Installations - Chamber Ensemble
Night Flight (Kotche) - Percussion Quintet
Projections of (What) Might - Drumset, with Tape
Reductions or Imitations - Percussion Ensemble
Rex Tremendae - Percussion Quartet, Chorus
Something of Life - Drumset, Cello, Electronics
Stagger On - Coda - Multiple Percussion, with Tape
Stone Flow - Percussion Quartet - Mallet Quartet
Taisho - Vibraphone, Double Bass
The Beautiful Confusion Percussion Ensemble
The Haunted - Percussion Duo, 2 Pianos
The Haunted Dance - Percussion Duo, 2 Pianos
The Haunted Hive - Percussion Quartet
The Haunted Viaduct - Percussion Duo, 2 Pianos
Three Worlds Collide - Percussion Ensemble
Time Passages - Multiple Percussion, Orchestra
Transferencia - Percussion Sextet
Traveling Turtle for Percussion Ensemble - Percussion Ensemble (12)
Traveling Turtle for Percussion Quartet - Percussion Quartet
Wading Pool - Electronic Percussion
Wild Sound - Percussion Quartet, Electronics, Video
Wild Sound, Part 4 - Final Segment - Percussion Quartet - Mallet Quartet
Wild Sound for Solo Drumkit - Drumset
Wild Things - Drumset, Electronics