Percussion (Percussion
Parts)
SKU:
HL.14028050
Composed
by Poul Ruders. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover]. 8
pages. Music Sales
#KP00033. Published by
Music Sales
(HL.14028050).
ISBN
9788759858387. UPC:
888680630478. 16.5x11.75
inches. International
(more than one
language).
Work for
Solo Percussion dating
from 1983. Ruders writes:
The extraordinary title
is a typical example of
Poul Ruder's (b. 1949)
peculiar and bizarre
sense of humour - Ruders,
together with Hans
Abrahamsen and Bo Holten,
being one of the most
important names within
new Danish music after
the
Nørgård-Holm
green-Nørholm
generation. Although
Ruders is influenced by
Holmgreen's absurd
simplicity, he takes up
an original place in new
Danish music to which he
has conveyed humour and
liveliness as well as
theatre and virtuosity.
Quotations, 'found
objects', play an
important part in Ruders'
music, for instance in
his chamber work MEDIEVAL
VARIATIONS (1974), but
the old material is being
varied with adequate
audacity and liveliness
so as to yield new
qualities, not unlike
Peter Maxwell Davies'
'music on music'. ALARM
is 'a short shocker, a
kind of film soundtrack
without the pictures',
based on the horror in
victor Hugo's THE BELL
RINGER OF NOTRE DAME. To
produce the right
atmosphere of uneasiness
and nervousness Ruders
uses, among other things,
the Balinese
cymbal-machine
'ching-ching' and the
snore of the 'didjeridoo'
from Australia.
