The Contemporary Percussionist

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Composer Name

Michael Udow; Chris Watts

General Info

Year: 19
Duration: c.
Difficulty: Intermediate to Advanced
Publisher: Meredith Music
Cost: $18.95

Description

The Contemporary Percussionist by Michael Udow and Chris Watts is a guidebook to help students familiarize themselves with multi-percussion setups/music in general, and Udow's method of notation (which has been adopted by many composers) in particular.

Inside you'll find twenty solos of increasing complexity to help become familiar with playing multi-percussion pieces - which will also help any percussionist deal with the fact that we're often asked to play a dozen (or more) instruments at a time in any setting.

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Works for Percussion by this Composer

A Bird Whispered, ""Your Children Are Dying"" – Percussion Quintet
Acoustic Composition No. 1 (Solo) – Multiple Percussion; Tape
Acoustic Composition No. 1 (Ensemble) – Percussion Duo; Tape
Acoustic Study No. 1 – Multiple Percussion
African Welcome Piece – Percussion (12)
As the Wind Colors – Percussion Quartet
Barn Burner – Multiple Percussion; Trombone; Piano
Bog Music (Solo) – Multiple Percussion; Percussion Ensemble
Bog Music (Ensemble) – Percussion Quartet
Concerto for Percussion with String Quartet – Multiple Percussion; Strings
Coyote Dreams – Percussion Trio; Marimba
Cycle, Retrace, Progress, Be Still – Vibraphone; Dance
Dance for J.P.C. – Percussion Quartet
Dinosaur Dance (Solo) – Timpani
Dinosaur Dance (Ensemble) – Percussion Quartet; Timpani
Dreams from A Bayou - Long Ago but not Forgotten - – Vibraphone; Flute
Duet (Udow) – Multiple Percussion; Dance
Flashback – Percussion Quartet
Flashback with MIDI – Percussion Quintet; Tape
Four Movements (Udow) – Percussion Quartet
Fracture – Multiple Percussion
Illusion I – Solo Percussion - Claves; Conductors (5)
Inside - Out with a Secret P.S. – Snare Drum
Lightning II – Percussion Trio; Oboe; Saxophone
Limits – Percussion Trio
Music for Cross-Cultures, No. 1 – Percussion (12)
Reality I – Percussion Quintet
Remembrance (Udow) – Multiple Percussion; Wind Ensemble
Sandsteps I – Percussion Duo
Shadow Songs I – Percussion (12)
Shadow Songs IV (Sextet) – Percussion Sextet
Shadow Songs IV (Ensemble) – Percussion Ensemble; Marimba
Suite for Jazz Drums and 4 Handclappers – Drum Set
Tennei-Ji – Marimba
The Contemporary Percussionist – Multiple Percussion
The Enchanted Land – Percussion Duo; Oboe
The Shattered Mirror –
Thoughts from Almost Near Somewhere – Percussion Sextet
Threnody – Multiple Percussion; Tape
Timbrack Quartet – Percussion Quartet
Token City – Multiple Percussion; Video
Two Transparent Structures for Percussion Quintet (Ensemble) – Percussion Ensemble; Marimba
Two Transparent Structures for Percussion Quintet (Quintet) – Percussion Quintet
Understanding – Percussion Octet; Tape
Vistas – Multiple Percussion; Bass Clarinet
Zig-Zag – Percussion Duo