Written for multi percussion.  Like much of the percussion repertoire time (rhythm) takes center stage as the primary compositional element namely though various additive procedures. These additive procedures however are clouded or actually they're 'coloured ' by Nico's enormous and infectious personality as is the pitch material orchestration and form. 

3 Percussion parts and 1 Piano for Higher Faster Stronger by Eric Whitacre Commissioned by BBC Radio 3. First performance 29 August 2012 at the BBC Proms Royal Albert Hall London by the BBC Singers EricWhitacre Singers ensemblebash (percussion) and Christopher Glynn (piano) conducted by the composer.Scoring: Triple chorus (SATB) including solo sopranoPercussion (3 players)PianoDuration: c.5 minutes

A superb cycle of 7 songs depicting the hero's stay on Grandma's farm somewhere in the Orkneys one summer. The songs tell of the farm chores nature and ghosts and are arranged for unison voices piano recorders and pitched or unpitched percussion. The songs can be used individually to link in with topic work or performed as an attractive concert item. Chime Bars part.This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.

One of MacMillan’s earliest successes was his first percussion concerto Veni Veni Emmanuel (1992) firmly established with hundreds of performances to date. Percussion Concerto no 2 was therefore received with great excitement at its premiere in 2014 by Colin Currie and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic. Like its predecessor the second concerto is formed in a single c25-minute span albeit with contrasting sections but with full orchestra scoring. The significant array of solo percussion is complemented by two orchestral percussion sections

The Spiders' Revenge is a short music-theatre work (duration about 25 minutes) designed for performance by primary school children. The work was written for Evie Primary School a small rural school in Orkney of about 60 pupils between the ages of five and eleven and was specially devised to enhance an environmental studies project on 'mini-beasts'. All the pupils in the school took part in the first performance. Two children playing in a garden delight in tormenting ladybirds snails spiders and other living creatures who they claim 'have no right to be'. The spiders teach the children a salutary lesson during the course of which they learn a great deal aboutthe ways of these creatures finally recognizing the wonder of the insect world and acknowledging that all 'have their place on the earth'.The songs include simple recorder and percussion parts and guitar chords. Tuned percussion part. This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.

Facsimile Of The Draft Score and Paul Sacher'S Annotated Full Score Copy-Béla Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion composed in summer 1937 on a commission from Paul Sacher and premièred in Basel in January 1938 is incontestably one of the supreme creations of modern music. This publication with introductory essays by Felix Meyer Robert W. Wason Lászlo Vikárius and Wolfgang Rathert presents two major handwritten sources for this work from the holdings of the Paul Sacher Foundation: the draft score which offers a fascinating glimpse into the sonata's genesis and a 'whiteprint' of the fair copy which contains additions from Bartók and differs substantially from the definitiveversion at the end of the development section in movement 1. The volume also contains on an enclosed CD the radio recording of 1940 with Bartók and his wife Ditta Pásztory on the piano parts as well as a new recording of the sonata in its 'original' form played by the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo with percussionists Matthias Würsch and Christian Dierstein.

For five players. Who can resist a Gershwin tune! Fascinating Rhythm swings here in a jazz/pop style. The arrangement utilizes unique percussion sounds (i.e., brushes on tuned timpani, mallet handles on drums and keyboard bars) to create unusual colors. A percussion quintet with two keyboard parts provided. Instrumentation: bells, xylophone, marimba, 3 woodblocks, triangle, 3 tom-toms, bass drum, 3 timpani.