I Ching: Percussion: Instrumental Work

SKU: HL.14041798

ISBN 9788759818077. 12.5x16.5x1.13 inches.

Set of parts for Per Nørgård 's En Lys Time / A Light Hour (2008-09) for a variable Percussion Ensemble (min. 10 players).

In A Light Hour everything - rhythms and motifs – is based on Nørgård&acut e;s special infinity series.

Score: WH30964

Programme note

A Light Hour is for ‘any number of percussion musicians’ (but a minimum of ten). The duration is about 60 minutes. The instrumentation is in principle open, as long as percussion is used within the three types specified in the score: skin, metal and wood. Each musicianuses two sound sources with two different sounds, one of which is bright (or light) and the other dark. Certain passages also include tuned percussion instruments – vibraphone, xylophone, marimba, gamelan, glockenspiel, steel drums, crotales and the like. 

The work integrates and combines a number of rhythms that Nørgård has used in percussion works since the 1970s, for example in Early Spring Dance (for choir and percussion), and percussion works like I Ching, Easy Beats, Whirls, Zigzag, Nemo Dynamo and Echo Zone I-II-III. 

Special “tone-feasts” (the composer’s term) – followed by a rest – are an recognizable 
me lodic feature of the work.: the first minute end with a short tone-feast (and a rest), the first four minutes end with a tone-feast lasting a minute (and a rest), the first quarter of an hour ends with a tone-feast of four minutes (and a rest) – and the work ends with a tone-feast lasting quarter of an hour (and a rest, when the work is over ...). 

The first 15 minutes have a bright, light character throughout, and alternate between 
rhythms and melodic play. The following 15 minutes are more insistent and decidedly 
percu ssion-based, Afro-Cuban, whereas the third quarter of A Light Hour moves in the.

SKU: BT.AMP-274-120

9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dut ch.

Philip Sparke's Sinfonietta No. 4 is comprised of three parts that are played as an uninterrupted whole. The _x001F_first movement begins with a lyrical fugato passage, framing a brisker and more rhythmical middle section. The second movement is slower and contains a long and expressive euphonium solo. The third movement is a salute to the sponsor of this commission: various percussion instruments conjure up sounds reminiscent of a carpenter's workshop, accompanied by a unison orchestral passage in a scat style.

Sinfonie tta No. 4 bestaat uit drie in elkaar overlopende delen. Het eerste deel bestaat uit een lyrische fugato dat overgaat in een sneller en ritmisch gedeelte. In het tweede, trage deel, komt een prachtige euphoniumsolo aan bod. Het derde deel bevat een muzikale knipoog naar de opdrachtgever van het werk waarin de componist diverse slagwerk instrumenten geluiden na laat bootsen die uit een timmermanswekplaats lijken te komen.

Philip Sparkes Sinfonietta No. 4 besteht aus drei Teilen, die ohne Unterbrechung gespielt werden. Der erste Satz beginnt mit einer lyrischen Fugato-Passage, die einen schnelleren und rhythmischeren Mittelteil umrahmt. Der zweite Teil ist langsamer und enthalt ein langes, expressives Euphoniumsolo. Der dritte Teil ist ein Salut an den Sponsor dieses Kompositionsauftrags: Diverse Schlaginstrumente erinnern an die Klange aus einer Schreinerei, unisono begleitet von einer Orchesterpassage im Scat-Stil.

Sinf onietta Ndeg 4 est une oeuvre en trois mouvements qui s'enchainent sans interruption. Le premier mouvement decrit le village de Stramproy. Il s'ouvre avec un passage lyrique en style fugue qui enserre un passage central plus rapide et plus rythme. Dans le second mouvement, la musique est plus apaisee. Un magni_x001C_fique solo d'euphonium traverse la trame musicale. Le troisieme et dernier mouvement illustre les activites de l'entreprise commanditaire de l'oeuvre. On entend les bruits de l'atelier dans un passage pour multi-percussions, qui ornemente une texture orchestrale a l'unisson, proche du scat.

Sinfoniet ta No. 4 si compone di tre parti da eseguire senza interruzione. Il primo movimento inizia con un lirico passaggio fugato, che fa da cornice a una parte centrale piu veloce e ritmica. Nel secondo movimento la musica e piu calma. Un magni_x001E_fico assolo di eufonio attraversa la trama musicale. Il terzo movimento descrive in musica le attivita dell'azienda che ha commissionato il brano (un laboratorio di falegnameria), attraverso un passaggio per le percussioni che ornano un andamento orchestrale all'unisono.

SKU: BT.AMP-274-020

9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dut ch.

Philip Sparke’s Sinfonietta No. 4 is comprised of three parts that are played as an uninterrupted whole. The _x001F_first movement begins with a lyrical fugato passage, framing a brisker and more rhythmical middle section. The second movement is slower and contains a long and expressive euphonium solo. The third movement is a salute to the sponsor of this commission: various percussion instruments conjure up sounds reminiscent of a carpenter’s workshop, accompanied by a unison orchestral passage in a scat style.

Sinfonie tta No. 4 bestaat uit drie in elkaar overlopende delen. Het eerste deel bestaat uit een lyrische fugato dat overgaat in een sneller en ritmisch gedeelte. In het tweede, trage deel, komt een prachtige euphoniumsolo aan bod. Het derde deel bevat een muzikale knipoog naar de opdrachtgever van het werk waarin de componist diverse slagwerk instrumenten geluiden na laat bootsen die uit een timmermanswekplaats lijken te komen.

Philip Sparkes Sinfonietta No. 4 besteht aus drei Teilen, die ohne Unterbrechung gespielt werden. Der erste Satz beginnt mit einer lyrischen Fugato-Passage, die einen schnelleren und rhythmischeren Mittelteil umrahmt. Der zweite Teil ist langsamer und enthält ein langes, expressives Euphoniumsolo. Der dritte Teil ist ein Salut an den Sponsor dieses Kompositionsauftrags: Diverse Schlaginstrumente erinnern an die Klänge aus einer Schreinerei, unisono begleitet von einer Orchesterpassage im Scat-Stil.

Sinf onietta N° 4 est une oeuvre en trois mouvements qui s’enchaînent sans interruption. Le premier mouvement décrit le village de Stramproy. Il s’ouvre avec un passage lyrique en style fugué qui enserre un passage central plus rapide et plus rythmé. Dans le second mouvement, la musique est plus apaisée. Un magni_x001C_fique solo d’euphonium traverse la trame musicale. Le troisième et dernier mouvement illustre les activités de l’entreprise commanditaire de l’oeuvre. On entend les bruits de l’atelier dans un passage pour multi-percussions, qui ornemente une texture orchestrale l’unisson, proche du scat.

Sinfoniet ta No. 4 si compone di tre parti da eseguire senza interruzione. Il primo movimento inizia con un lirico passaggio fugato, che fa da cornice a una parte centrale più veloce e ritmica. Nel secondo movimento la musica è più calma. Un magni_x001E_fico assolo di eufonio attraversa la trama musicale. Il terzo movimento descrive in musica le attivit dell’azienda che ha commissionato il brano (un laboratorio di falegnameria), attraverso un passaggio per le percussioni che ornano un andamento orchestrale all’unisono.

SKU: HL.50510290

ISBN 9790080141724. UPC: 073999922905. Bach (23 x 30,2 cm) inches. Hungarian, English, German.

We recommend this volume to those who would like to play the melodic instruments (tubular bells, marimba, vibraphone, xylophone) that are gaining an increasingly important role in the rapidly developing teaching of percussion instruments. Starting from the first steps, familiarization with the notes, it provides varied, colourful musical material sufficient for several years, including not only folk melodies of different nations but also works by many important composers (Beethoven, J.C.F. Fischer, Handel, Kodaly, Lully, Leopold and Wolfgang Mozart, Praetorius, Purcell and Schubert). Together with duets and pieces with piano accompaniment, which are particularly suitable for concert performance, exercises to develop skill in score reading are included in the teaching material, in the compilation of which the author drew on several decades of teaching experience. The textual instructions are provided in three languages: German, English and Hungarian.

SKU: PR.44641192L

UPC: 680160610860. 11 x 14 inches.

One of my greatest pleasures in writing a concerto is exploring the new world that opens for me each time I enter the sometimes alien, but always fascinating, world of a solo instrument or instruments. For me, the challenge is to discover the deepest nature of the solo instrument (its karma, if you will) and to allow that essential character to guide the shape and form of the work and the nature of the interaction between soloists and orchestra. In recent years, many of us have become more aware of the musical world outside the Western tradition of musics that follow different procedures and spring from other aesthetics. And contemporary percussionists have opened many of these worlds to us, as they have ventured around the globe, participating in Brazilian Samba schools, studying Gamelan and African drumming with local experts, collecting instruments from Asia and Africa and South America and the South Pacific, widening our horizons in the process. I will never forget our first meeting in Toronto when Nexus invited me into their world of hundreds of exciting percussion instruments. The vast array of instruments in the collection of the Nexus ensemble is truly global in scope as well as offering a thrilling sound-universe. I was inspired by the incredible range of sound and moved by the fact that so many of these instruments were musical reflections of a spiritual dimension. After long consideration, I decided that it would not only be impossible, but even undesirable for this Western-tradition-steeped composer to attempt to use these instruments in a culturally authentic way. My goal was an existential kind of authenticity: searching instead for universal ideas that would be true to both myself and the performers while acknowledging the traditional uses of the instruments. Since many percussion instruments are associated with various kinds of ritual, I decided that I would allow that concept to shape my piece. Rituals is in four movements, each issuing from a ritual associated with percussion, but with the orchestral interaction providing an essential element in the musical form. I. Invocation alludes to the traditions of invoking the spirit of the instruments, or the gods, or the ancestors before performing. II. Ambulation moves from a processional, through march and dance to fantasy based on all three. III. Remembrances alludes to traditions of memorializing. IV. Contests progresses from friendly competition games, contests to a suggestion of a battle of big band drummers, to warlike exchanges. In the 2nd and 4th movements, another percussion tradition, improvisation, is employed. Written into these movements are a number of seeds for improvisation. Indications in the score call for the soloists to improvise in three different ways, marked A for percussion alone; marked B for percussion with and in response to the orchestra; and C where the percussionists are free to add and embellish the written parts. These improvisations should grow out of and embellish previous motives and gestures in the movement.