Transitions for Solo Percussion with Percussion Ensemble
General Info
Year: 2010
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Level: Advanced
Duration: 00:13:00
Cost: $72.00
Overview
This concerto is truly an exciting and challenging work for the soloist including virtuosic material on both pitched and non-pitched percussion instruments. This work will captivate any audience with its musical contrasts and fascinate them with the visually stimulating choreography in the soloist's performance.
Movement
Movement 1: Dawn
Movement 2: Day
Instrumentation
Solo Percussion: Marimba & Vibraphone & 4 Concert Tom-Toms & Bongos & Snare Drum
Player 1: Vibraphone
Player 2: 4-octave Marimba
Player 3: 4.3-octave Marimba
Player 4: 5-octave Marimba
Player 5: 4 Timpani
Player 6: Crotales & Suspended Cymbal & Triangle & Xylophone & China Cymbal
Player 7: Tam-Tam & Bells & Bass Drum & Chimes & Hi-Hat & 4 Concert Tom-Toms
Program Notes
The concept behind Transitions is that of a single day and the gradual shifts and changes within it. There are three distinct but related segments reflected in the piece: Dawn, Day, and Dusk; these form uninterrupted movements in a slow-fast-slow format. Within the faster middle movement is a percussion cadenza. The melodic and harmonic content of Transitions is based almost entirely on the B half-whole octatonic scale. The opening pitches in the solo vibraphone form the primary motive of the work and bring continuity to the piece as a whole. After the first statement, this motive is immediately restated in the accompaniment, later used as punctuation tones in the cadenza, and finally restated in retrograde in the final measures of the work, again in the solo vibraphone, as an indication of the inevitable connection to the start of a new day. This concerto is truly an exciting and challenging work for the soloist including virtuosic material on both pitched and non-pitched percussion instruments. This work will captivate any audience with its musical contrasts and fascinate them with the visually stimulating choreography in the soloist’s performance. This composition is written at a performance level consistent with most college or university ensembles. The solo part is intended to be accessible to graduate or advanced undergraduate percussion performers.
Recent Performance
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Solo Works
Solo Works with Orchestra
Solo Works with Wind Ensemble
Solo Works with Percussion Ensemble
Percussion Ensemble
DUETS
- All Hands on Deck
- COLORING SHEET
- IN TANDEM
- KLEPTOMANIA
- MINOR PLOT
- MUTUAL INTEREST
- OUTSIDE THE BOX
- SUITE MARIMBA
- THANKS FOR LISTENING
- THIS ONE DAY
TRIOS
- All Hands on Deck
- BASIC GEOMETRY
- BULK TRASH
- CC'D
- CHRISTMAS THREE
- Conversations for Percussion Trio
- DUET TRIO
- Hands Up
- LEVEL PLAYING FIELD
- ROUNDABOUT
- TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA
- Wood, Metal, Skin
- XEROSIS
QUARTETS
- ALL HANDS ON DECK
- CHIPBOARD
- FRAMED
- INSTITUTIONALIZED
- LEAVES FELL PLAYFULLY
- OF HANUKKAH
- PADS IN ISOLATION
- SILHOUETTE
- SMALL BOX
- TIGHT QUARTERS
- TING
- ZEUG
QUINTETS
MEDIUM ENSEMBLE
- 120 DEGREES
- BOY OH BOY
- BUBBLEGUM
- BUMP IN THE NIGHT
- CC'D
- CHA-CHA BLUES
- Deck Park Tunnel
- From This Viewpoint
- Hole In The Wall
- Joy of Every Heart
- The Juggler
- LANCERAN SATU SLENDRO
- Northern Workshop
- O Come, O Come, EMMANUEL
- OF HANUKKAH
- Pliplets
- plusFIVE
- Prime Numbers
- Puzzle Pieces
- Shifting Waves
- SOCA-ING WET
- SOME PEOPLE'S KIDS
- STELLER'S JAY
- Tight Quarters
- Tubz
- UNSETTLED SURFACE
- Ups And Downs
- VENN DIAGRAM
- Villanesca
LARGE ENSEMBLE
- Bump in the Night
- Clouds make Songo Away
- Combo Meal
- Danse Macabre
- Molto Vivace
- Spare Change
- Strawberry Blonde
- Unintended Consequence
- Whatcha Baion?
- Northern Workshop