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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Solo Percussion"”.
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Aesthetic Models and Structural Features in Concerto for Solo Percussion and Concert Band
Concerto for Solo Percussion and Concert Band was commissioned by Staff Sergeant Rone Sparrow, a percussionist with the West Point Military Academy Band. Funding for the project was provided by the Barlow Foundation. The piece was premiered April 13, 2005 in the Eisenhower Hall Theater at West …
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"!MPACT".
!MPACT is an eighteen-minute percussion concerto for solo percussion, saxophone quartet, brass quartet, and string quartet. The original composition, written by Ben Johansen, was commissioned by Todd Meehan, Director of Percussion Studies at the Baylor University School of Music. The work is a …
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The 1986 National Endowment for the Arts Commission: An Introspective Analysis of Two Marimba Works
… is rapidly achieving greater importance as a solo percussion instrument. Solo compositions for the marimba have been commissioned and performed only in the last sixty years. The 1986 National Endowment for the Arts Solo Marimba Commission is considered one of the most important commissioning …
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Deconstructing David Lang's The Anvil Chorus
… and twenty-first centuries. David Lang's solo percussion work, <em>The Anvil Chorus</em>, is case and point.</p> <p>Lang was born in 1957 into an inartistic family. His interest in composition, and indeed classical music, was sparked at the age of nine when he was shown a film performance …
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Examination of the evolution of multi-percussion
The twentieth century belonged to percussion. In previous centuries, percussion performed a supporting function with its primary role being to accentuate chordal changes and reinforce the beat. By the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries orchestras expanded in size and instrumentation with …