By Billy Strayhorn. Arranged by Chris Brooks. Concert Ensemble. For Bells, Xylophone, Marimba, Vibes, Train Whistle, Bell Tree, Congas, Drum Set, Piano, Bass Guitar, As many floor toms as you can locate!. Indiana State Solo and Ensemble List, Virginia State Solo and Ensemble List. Level: 3. Duration 3:23. Published by Row-Loff Publications.

(from Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 114 arranged for percussion ensemble). Composed by Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Arranged by Stephen Primatic. For percussion ensemble (7-player setup: glockenspiel, xylophone, vibraphone, 2 medium marimbas (4.3-octave, low A), 1 large marimba (4.6-octave, low E); 13-player setup: add 4 timpani, triangle, tambourine, concert snare drum, 1 pair crash cymbals, concert bass drum). Medium. Folio and parts on CD-ROM. 14 pages. Duration 4'45 . Published by Tapspace Publications

Percussion Ensemble

SKU: HL.14041798

A Light Hour 2008. Composed by Per Norgard. Music Sales America. Classical. Set. Composed 2013. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30964A. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (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´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 
melodic 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 
percussion-based, Afro-Cuban, whereas the third quarter of A Light Hour moves in the.

(for percussion ensemble). Composed by Benjamin Finley. Percussion Ensembles. For xylophone, crotales (2 octaves), glockenspiel, chimes, 2 vibraphones, 3 marimbas (low A), one 5-octave marimba (low C), 4 timpani, 4 medium toms, large suspended cymbal, small cymbal (played w/triangle beater), high brake drum, 4 low toms, sizzle cymbal, (13 players). Difficulty: Advanced. Folio and CD-ROM. 22 pages. Duration 5:50. Published by Tapspace Publications

(Mvt. 2 – Assez vif, Tres rythme arranged for mallet septet). Composed by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). Arranged by Stephen Primatic. Percussion Ensembles. For Glockenspiel, xylophone, vibraphone, 5- octave marimba (low C, shared), and two 4-octave marimbas (7 players). Difficulty: Advanced. Folio & CD-ROM. 20 pages. Duration 6:15. Published by Tapspace Publications

(Intermezzo, arranged for percussion ensemble). Composed by G. Gimenez y Bellido. Arranged by Bobby Lopez. For percussion ensemble (10 players: xylophone, bells, 2 vibraphones, 1 shared 5-octave marimba (low C), 1 4.6-octave marimba (low E), 5 timpani, concert snare drum, concert bass drum, 1 pair dark crash cymbals, 1 pair light crash cymbals, tambourine, castanets, triangle). Medium-advanced. Folio and parts on CD-ROM. 24 pages. Duration 4'00 . Published by Tapspace Publications

(from Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 74). By Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Arranged by Alan Miller. Percussion Ensemble. For glockenspiel, xylophone, three vibraphones, one 4.3 octave marimba (low A), two 4.5 octave marimbas (low F), four timpani (five recommended), snare drum, bass drum w/ crash cymbal attachment, tam tam, three suspended cymbals (high, mid, low) (8 players). Concert Percussion Ensembles. Medium-Difficult. Score and parts on CD-ROM. 30 pages. Duration 3:40. Published by Tapspace Publications

(for percussion ensemble). By Brian Blume. For percussion ensemble (13 players: glockenspiel, shared 4.3-octave marimba (low A), vibraphone, xylophone, chimes, 4 timpani, snare drum, triangle, concert toms (4), concert bass drum, hi-hat, shaker, china cym

(for percussion ensemble). Composed by John Herndon. For percussion ensemble (10 players). Easy. Score and parts on CD-Rom. 14 pages. Duration 2 minutes. Published by Tapspace Publications