Prelude and Dragonfly Dance

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Composer Name

Ross Edwards

General Info

Year: 1992
Duration: c.
Difficulty: Advanced
Publisher: Moeck
Cost: Score and Parts - $20.00   |   Score Only - $0.00

Movements

Prelude
Drangonfly Dance

Instrumentation

Player 1: Marimba
Player 2: Marimba
Player 3: Vibraphone & Bongos & Congas
Player 4: Vibraphone & Maracas & Guiro

Program Notes

Prelude and Dragonfly Dance was the John Bishop Memorial commission for the 1992 Adelaide Festival of the Arts. It was composed especially for the Synergy Percussion Ensemble and Evelyn Glennie. The Prelude is a trance-like reverie with fragmentary marimba dialogue and near-subliminal droning of Japanese temple bells. It is intended as a mind-clearing preparation for the rhythmic, delicately exuberant Dragonfly dance. The principle applied here, as in several other of my works, is that unexpected alignments and associations may create fresh perceptions of the familiar.

Works for Percussion by this Composer

Solo

Marimba Dances – Marimba
More Marimba Danses – Percussion

Duet

Binyang - Clarinet & Percussion Duo
Enyato IV - Bass Clarinet & Percussion Duo

Trio

Booroora - Clarinet, Percussion, Double Bass
Maninya IV - Bass clarinet, Trombone, Marimba

Quartet

Prelude and Dragonfly Dance – Percussion Quartet
Reflections – Percussion Trio; with Piano

Quintet

Dance Fanfare- Brass Quintet
Barossa Pearl - Flute, Clarinet, Marimba, Violin, Cello

Large Ensemble Works

Yarrageh - Nocturno for Percussion and Orchestra – Multiple Percussion; with Orchestra
Clarinet Concerto - Clarinet; with Orchestra
Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra - Oboe; with Orchestra