Dimension 5
General Info
Publisher: Innovative Percussion
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Duration: 00:03:36
Cost:$20.00
OVERVIEW
- Based on Number 5
- Small Set-Up
- Influenced by Steve Reich
- Good Choice for Undergraduate Recital
- Advanced High School Appropriate
Instrumentation
Player 1: Brake Drum & Splash Cymbal & Bongos & Snare Drum & 2 Concert Tom-toms (High and Low)
Player 2: Brake Drum & Splash Cymbal & Bongos & Snare Drum & 2 Concert Tom-toms (High and Low)
ITEM DETAILS
Based on the number five, Joe Moore's Dimension 5 is a multi-percussion duet heavily influenced by Steve Reich's Six Marimbas and Piano Phase. Both players use an identical setup of instruments, all of which are easily found in any percussion studio.
The music is all about fives - 5/4 and 5/8 time signatures, five-note groups, five-based accent patterns, and of course plenty of quintuplets. Moore uses the additive process in many phrases, starting out with a single note and slowly adding in more notes to create an increasingly complex weave of sounds.
Dimension 5 is a great choice for a multi-percussion piece on any undergraduate recital. Advanced high school players could also learn this piece to be a highlight during a percussion ensemble concert.
Composer Notes
Dimension 5 is a multiple percussion duet. The piece is based on the number five and is filled with five bar phrases and groupings of five notes. Concepts from the additive process of Steve Reich’s piece Six Marimbas, along with ideas from Reich’s Piano Phase, and Moore's obsession with the number five came to play in the composition of this piece.
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Solo Works
3 drums (congas)
A Day in the Studio (vibraphone)
Agape (IP) (marimba)
A Glimpse of Life (marimba)
Autumn (marimba)
A Wind Sketch (marimba)
Bound (multi-percussion)
Celestial Dreams (IP) (multi-percussion w/tape)
Chant (marimba + tabla)
Dawn (marimba)
Eclipse (vibraphone)
Epoch (multi-percussion)
Faith (marimba)
Five Pieces for Solo Glockenspiel
Finding Meaning (vibraphone)
Fuse (cowbell)
Halley's Comet (marimba)
iDrum (marching snare drum)
juNO (rudimental snare drum)
Kindled Fire (multi-percussion)
Lemniscate “8 is strength” (marimba)
No wind, no rain, just a subtle mist. (vibraphone)
Of the Moon (marimba)
Pantocrator (marimba)
Parable (timpani)
Platform (snare drum)
Pulsar (multi-percussion)
Release (marimba)
Redemption (marimba)
Reveries (marimba)
Ritual (tambourine)
Still Waters Run Deep (multi-percussion)
The Piece that Passes All Understanding (marimba)
Thick Skin (djembe)
Thunder (timpani)
Treading Lightly (timpani)
Visible Light (crotales)
Wavelengths (crotales)
Duets
Apex (two percussionists)
Astronomically Speaking (alto saxophone + percussion)
A yearning (horn + marimba)
Bad Vibes (Bb trumpet + vibraphone)
Beijos (violin + percussion)
Barbaric Passages (two percussionists)
Constellations (alto flute + marimba)
Dimension 5 (two percussionists)
Even - keel (horn + percussion)
Geaux (snare drum + timpani)
Leoce (IP) (two marimbas)
Luna (IP) (marimba + vibes)
Omojo (two percussionists)
Pattern Music ( marimbas)
Purple Mist (IP) (marimba & vibes)
Sapphire (flute + Bb clarinet)
Secrets We Keep (2 percussionists)
Space Grey (electric guitar + vibraphone)
The Colour Suite (IP) (violin + percussion)
The Jackal’s Wedding (saxophone + percussion)
Percussion Ensembles
Above the Clouds (percussion ensemble 12 players)
At a Distance (percussion ensemble 4+ players)
Bon Temps (percussion quartet)
Burning Coal (percussion ensemble 8-12 players)
Celestial Bodies (marimba quartet)
Crescent (percussion quintet)
Dark Matter (IP) (percussion quartet)
Denkyem (percussion ensemble 6 players)
Entourage (percussion quartet)
Genesis (percussion ensemble 8 players)
Halo (percussion trio)
Marimba Quartet (IP)
Mosaic (IP) (percussion quintet)
Northeastern Relic (IP) (percussion ensemble 9 players)
Nova (percussion ensemble 10 players)
Sweet Bread (beginning level percussion ensemble)
Projection (percussion ensemble 13 players)
Spiritual Gifts (percussion quartet)
Strobes (percussion quartet)
Tempered Glass (percussion quintet)
with liberty... (percussion ensemble 14+ players)
Chamber Works
Trio for flute, clarinet and Bells (originally titled Newton's Laws)
Wooden Alloy (trumpet + two percussionists)
Concerto
Concerto No. 1 for Marimba and Orchestra(IP)
Cucuy (percussion ensemble with solo snare drum)
Fede di Volare (Faith to Fly) (marimba w/percussion trio)
Landscapes (IP) (solo timpani w/percussion ensemble)
Primary Source (solo marimba w/percussion sextet)
Seconds Away (solo marimba w/percussion duo)
Unchained (solo marimba w/percussion trio)
Unforeseen Problems (solo marimba w/percussion trio)