Percussion Section Feature-A vibrant and attentive Percussion section is crucial to the success of any concert band. However the Percussionists play a supporting role so much of the time that it can be difficult to keep your best players excited about their music. One of the best ways to beat that problem is to program an occasional feature piece.James Curnow?s BLOCKBUSTER PERCUSSION is just the arrangement you need when it?s time to let the Percussion section ?show off? a bit. Bold exciting themes and a well-crafted rhythmic modal concept keep the parts interesting for all the players in the band. AND audiences love the energy that only the Percussion section can deliver! Give everyone a treatby programming BLOCKBUSTER PERCUSSION soon!

Voici une pièce pleine d?énergie qui donnera aux jeunes percussionnistes l?occasion de briller. James Curnow emploie une grande diversité d?instruments et d?effets de percussion dans ce tour de force exubérant.

Cette œuvre en trois mouvements est une commande de Kunstfactor l?institut néerlandais pour les arts amateurs. Elle est destinée à élargir le répertoire pour percussionniste solo et orchestre qu?il s?agisse d?un brass band d?une fanfare ou d?un orchestre d?harmonie. Pour l?interpréter comme il se doit le soliste doit maîtriser de nombreuses techniques et posséder une bonne compréhension des instruments non seulement en termes de technicité mais également d?un point de vue musical. En ce qui concerne le choix d?instruments et de techniques les deux premiers mouvements sont d?un style plutôt classique tandis que le dernier qui fait appel à divers instruments nonaccordables se prête mieux à un solo de batterie d?esprit contemporain. Ces distinctions seront évidentes lorsque le soliste étudiera la pièce. (Menno Bosgra)Le premier mouvement fait appel aux timbales triangle et tambourin ;Le deuxième mouvement fait appel au marimba et au vibraphone ;Le troisième mouvement réunit : cinq percussions non accordables (bongos et toms) une grosse caisse (suspendue) un grand tom basse ou une grosse caisse plus petite (à plat) une cloche sur support des cymbales suspendues une cymbale chinoise et un tom aigu.

Par SCIAINO PETER. 'Bahumba' is a nonsense word but a no-nonsense selection for concert band. The word stems from a sound composer Peter Sciaino heard coming from an idling car. The engine, clearly having issues, had an 'uneven' gate or pulse. He mindlessly heard the word 'Bahumba' within the sounds emerging from the struggling motor. Just like an engine, an ensemble can attain a smooth groove even if 'uneven' in terms of pulse. While the percussionists are often asked to provide this groove under the melodic lines, they ultimately break out with a feature that essentially places a percussion ensemble within the context of a concert band piece. (2:43). / Date parution : 2022-10-12/ Répertoire / Concert Band

Percussionists must learn both the rudiments and the scales. This piece provides the wind players some exposure to the rudiments. 'Paradiddles' creates patterns played by the winds that mimic two types of paradiddles---the single paradiddle and the double paradiddle. This may be the first piece for concert band inspired by, and based on, percussion rudiments. (5:50) / Concert Band

Mallet Percussion Duet With Concert Band-Take your two best percussionists stage them up front and let them dazzle your audience with this clever feature for two xylophone players (or 1 xylophone and 1 marimba). Using the classic ?Dueling Banjos ? Richard Saucedo has written a greatnovelty with easy band parts as accompaniment.

Scored using only the first few notes learned in most method books, the Latin beat is driving yet repetitive. The variety of percussion sounds, playable by percussionists or extra band members, paves the way for your band to impress! (1:30) / Concert Band

“I wrote The Nonantum Bulgar in response to a request for a klezmer-style piece for middle school band. Since my local middle school (F. A. Day) is located in close proximity to Nonantum the oldest area of Newton MA Idecided to imagine the dedication of the Adams St. Shul our city's oldest synagogue which took place around a hundred years ago (December 15 1912). According to the Yiddish and English poster announcing the dedication theevent featured the a prominent Boston cantor and choir and a klezmer orchestra leading a 'Grand March' down Adams St. The piece tries to re-create what the klezmer band might have played on that occasion.A Bulgar is aRomanian Jewish Dance that was very popular among Jewish immigrants at the beginning of the twentieth century. The trumpet solo that opens the piece is a typical rubato prelude with the trumpet playing 'cantorial-style' Jewishornaments and phrasing in the manner of Eastern-European Jewish prayer leaders. Once the dance starts the piece is underscored with a Romanian Jewish 'Bulgaresca' rhythm heard in the trombone snare drum and tympani. The'bulgar' section of the piece begins with a typical klezmer band orchestration of the time featuring solo clarinet (played with a somewhat nasal tone) trumpet (or even more ideally cornet) trombone saxophone tuba andpercussion. The percussion section is prominently featured in the third strain. In the final round of the opening melody the band slows down in the manner of a Russian 'Grand March ' bringing the piece to a proud and majesticconclusion.” --Hankus Netsky