Use this unique book to enhance the type of musical intelligence expected from today’s percussionist.ACCESS DOWNLOADABLE ELECTRONIC ACCOMPANIMENTSProgram NotesThe Book of Percussion Audition Music for the 21st Century is designed for multiple purposes. The…
Style:
Solo Works
Composer:
Nathan Daughtrey, Cort McClaren
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Get your groove on with this fun piece from William Kempster. Works great as a novelty tune on a percussion ensemble concert!
Grade Level: 3 Copyright: 2000 Number of Players: 8 + Electric Bass Publisher: C. Alan Publications Category: Percussion…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
William Kempster
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Using harmonies from the jazz idiom, Wiliam Kempster has created a work for percussion ensemble that is both inviting for the audience and engaging for the performers.
Grade Level: 3 Copyright: 2005 Number of Players: 7 + Electric Bass Duration: 5:00…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
William Kempster
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Based on themes and motives from the hymn "Lord, I'm Coming Home," this lovely work for euphonium and percussion quintet was commissioned by euphonium player Christian Folk to celebrate to the life of his grandmother, Virginia. The percussion plays a purely…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Nathan Daughtrey
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
The ever energetic Ellipsis features a balanced ensemble of keyboard and battery percussion. In fact, every player in the ensemble has the opportunity to play a battery instrument at some point.Program NotesEllipsis: A mark or series of marks (...) that…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Nathan Daughtrey
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Featuring a balanced ensemble of 4 keyboard and 4 battery percussionists, Fidget borrows a rhythm from the agogo bell/cowbell part in Daughtrey's popular percussion quintet Shock Factor. Portions of this motive appears throughout the piece - sometimes as the…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Nathan Daughtrey
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Commissioned by the NC Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society to honor composer & percussionist Lynn Glassock, Legacies is a rousing work of great depth and variety. Using a similar instrumentation and rhythmic quotes from Glassock's classic work Factions…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Nathan Daughtrey
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) and Aurora Australis (Southern Lights) - the ethereal display of colored lights shimmering across the night sky - are the result of electrons colliding with the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere. Luminescence is my…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Nathan Daughtrey
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Variants on “In the Bleak Midwinter”
In true “fantasy” fashion, this setting of In the Bleak Midwinter starts with a simple statement of the melody in the metallic keyboards against flowing triplets in the marimbas. The melody then travels through several…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Nathan Daughtrey
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Power Struggle features a balanced ensemble of 4 keyboard percussion and 4 battery percussion. The struggle is apparent from the opening bars of the piece, with the 2 halves of the ensemble competing for attention in an exhilarating and bombastic fashion. The…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Nathan Daughtrey
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications