The Louisville Leopard Percussionists an ensemble founded and directed by Diane Downs has been wowing audiences at national and regional PAS and MENC conventions for several years. Using music arranged by Diane these youngsters perform with a degree of enthusiasm and skill that is truly amazing. For the first time these distinctive arrangements are available in print - carefully edited by well-known educator/author Rick Mattingly. Each arrangement comes with a full performance CD and is written with a flexible instrumentation based around mallet instruments drum set and a variety of Latin instruments. If you are looking to start up a percussion ensemble or need someentertaining program pieces for your existing group this series is definitely for you!

The Louisville Leopard Percussionists an ensemble founded and directed by Diane Downs has been wowing audiences at national and regional PAS and MENC conventions for several years. Using music arranged by Diane these youngstersperform with a degree of enthusiasm and skill that is truly amazing. For the first time these distinctive arrangements are available in print – carefully edited by well-known educator/author Rick Mattingly.Eacharrangement is written with a flexible instrumentation based around mallet instruments drum set and a variety of Latin instruments. If you are looking to start up a percussion ensemble or need some entertaining program piecesfor your existing group this series is definitely for you!

Percussion Ensemble. The novel cartoon theme that's a grin arranged for percussion ensemble with optional piano accompaniment.

From the highly-acclaimed Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack here is the Oscar¸-winning Song of the Year skillfully arranged for percussion ensemble. Exciting and intensely rhythmic this is sure to be a favorite with players and audience alike.

Following Malletino and Fun-4-All this work is the third in a series of compositions for five mallet instruments and five percussion instruments (including bongos and timpani). Malletino was written specifically for beginnerpercussion ensembles whereas the technical and musical level required for Sequenza Percussola is clearly higher. In short this work is a challenge for the ensemble-and a great pleasure for the audience.

'The Typewriter' is a classic Leroy Anderson novelty piece. This medium-grade percussion ensemble is written for 9--10 players, and includes the classic typewriter rhythm ('What's a typewriter?'). Make sure to have fun and add a little bit of Jerry Lewis. / Percussions

The Editio Bärenreiter Praha publishing house has been putting together its Complete Critical Edition of Works by Miloslav Kabeláč (1. 8. 1908 – 17. 9. 1979) since 1999. To mark the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth, two titles have been published, now established repertoire works both in the Czech Republic and chiefly abroad, which will complete the 4th series of the critical edition – Eight Inventions for Percussion Instruments and Otto ricercari for percussion instruments. Kabeláč had a lifelong and profound interest in percussion instruments. “These are instruments,” he would say, “which are played, not just struck or beaten. They may be entrusted with music.” The cycle EIGHT INVENTIONS, one of Kabeláč’s most famous works, was written in 1962 for the French ensemble Les Percussions de Strasbourg. The inventions were sometimes combined with a ballet performance, which was the case for the Strasbourg premiere. However, Kabeláč clearly favoured a purely instrumental, concert performance of the work, which was subsequently undertaken by numerous ensembles, presently including the Prague Percussion Ensemble and another Czech ensemble, Dama-Dama. The piece was written for six players and a large group of percussion instruments – the instruments required vary from one movement to the next. Here, Kabeláč uses new proportional notation in a form which is essentially his own invention. The eight parts treat different intellectual, formal, sound and rhythmic-metric issues; the cycle as a whole reflects musical inspiration from outside Europe. For the sake of clarity, the inventions are always performed from the score. Its new critical edition, with detailed commentary from the editor, corresponds to the autograph with the exception of isolated minor deviations which the composer wrote into the score for the Panton edition (1966, 2nd edition, 1971) after the work’s premiere.

The term pentacle refers to a star formed by five straight lines. This work provides five percussionistes the challenge of playing several different instruments during one work. Throughout the work performers move from instrument to instrument arriving back at their original position for the work's conclusion. This ability is necessary for the performance of contemporary percussion literature.

Latinology takes the basic drum set beats from five Latin dance rhythms (Beguine Cha-Cha Tango Bossa Nova and Samba) and divides them among five percussionists. When playing latin rhythms keep individual parts simple so when combined and authentic 'feel' results. Optional improvisation for guiro and cowbell occurs during the Samba. Additional players can also improvise as long as the Samba 'feel' is maintained. The four measure repeat may be played as written or repeated as many times as needed. At the conclusion of the repeat the ensemble should be cued in by the conductor and all players complete the final seven measures as written.