Nuevo Nueve ( New Nine )
Percussion Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

Percussion Ensemble - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.942726

Composed by Frank Pugh. Standards. Score and parts. 24 pages. Frank Pugh #6018905. Published by Frank Pugh (A0.942726).

 I wrote Nuevo-Nueve for an ensemble of nine new first-time percussion students.  "Nuevo" meaning new or different, and "Nueve" meaning "nine", seemed to be a good title for the piece.  Going along with the concept of nine, the song is written in nine bar phrases and has a total of 99 measures as well.  It uses simple and repetitive patterns to introduce students to the instruments that are utilized in the piece.  Out of the nine students that I originally wrote it for, six were wind players and the other three had never read music.  They had great success with it (and a lot of fun, too!).

    The first four parts are all listed as generic mallet parts, and all work pretty well with whatever mallet instruments that you have available.  Part 3 and 4 double each other, but part 4 is in bass clef.  They are written on the same sheet.  If you have the equipment for it, I recommend the following instrumentation:

Part 1:  bells or marimba

Part 2:  vibraphone

Part 3:  marimba

Part 4: (optional, bass clef, doubles part 3):  bass guitar, keyboard, or mallet controller

Part 5:  hi-hat cymbal, suspended cymbal, mounted tambourine

Part 6:  guiro, castanets, maracas, two pitched toms

Part 7:  drum set

Part 8:  suspended cymbal, china cymbal, splash cymbal, triangle

Part 9:  concert bass drum, cabasa

Be sure to check out my other small ensemble arrangements here on Sheet Music Plus, and thanks for taking a look!