The Bells (Wilshere)

Brian Wilshere

General Info

Year of Published: 2020
Publisher: Southern Percussion
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: c.
Cost: £12.00

Instrumentation

Vibraphone

Program Notes

Each Monday evening the bells ring from the church tower. They mostly play slowly changing ostinatos, but sometimes the bells all sound together in a clanging chord. This slow and mostly tranquil piece for solo 4 mallet Vibraphone begins with a gradual reveal of an ostinato in B minor, over which a melody then unfolds. At the climax of the piece, a passage in octaves is followed by clanging chords and the slow dismantling of the ostinato until only one note remains. The piece is played without the motor and with the pedal down throughout.

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Works for Percussion by this Composer

Solo

Dancing Water - Marimba
Freedom Dance - Multiple Percussion
Metropolis - Drum Set
The Bells (Wilshere) - Vibraphone
Variations - Timpani
Vibraphone Sonata - Vibraphone
Zodiac - Multiple Percussion

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