Spanish for "blue stars," Estrellas Azules is a vibraphone solo featuring a lyrical, sweet melody using extended 4-mallet techniques while bringing in the use of the motor. It explores voice leading and phrasing through mallet dampening and pedaling to…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Jonathan Tirado
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
This steel drum band selection, for four players plus drum set, creates an easy going mood typical of the steel drum idiom. Program notes inform us this piece pokes a little fun at the Northern Kentucky University Department of Music during a construction…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Brant Karrick
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
for Solo Marching Snare Drum
This marching snare solo features the “herta” hybrid rudiment in many different aspects through dynamics, stickings, and even musical genres from orchestral styles to traditional rudimental drumming styles most associated in…
Style:
Solo Works
Composer:
Jonathan Tirado
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
for Percussion Quartet
Nola-Béla-Sowega for percussion quartet was inspired by the New Orleans brass band tradition and the rhythmically vibrant works of Béla Bartók. The work follows Bartók’s signature arch form (ABCBA) and seeks to be a virtuosic showpiece…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
James M. David
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Combining the two words "quarantine" and "sonatina," Quarantina captures little moments of escape that I used when playing the vibraphone to drown out the uncertain circumstances of our ever-changing world. It symbolizes how one would feel when gazing upon…
Style:
Solo Works
Composer:
Jonathan Tirado
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
A Sacred Suite is a three-movement work inspired by traditional American shape-note songs. The first movement is a fanfare, the second is a beautiful slow tune found in the Southern Harmony singing book called Consolation, and the third is a rollicking 6/8…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Brant Karrick
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
This driving percussion quartet features a constantly changing sense of pulse that can be found in many genres of music, including East African folk music, Balinese Gamelan ensembles, medieval isorhythmic motets and even American rudimental drumming.Program…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
James M. David
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications