Dance Music for Elfrid Ide by John Cage (1912-1992). Edited by Don Gillespie. Contemporary Small Ensemble. For 2-6 Percussion (and Piano). Modern. Score. Composed 1940; First Performance: 15116. Duration circa 15 minutes. Published by Edition Peters

(from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 arranged for percussion ensemble). Composed by Edvard Grieg (1843-1907). Arranged by Brian Blume. Percussion Ensembles. For Glockenspiel, xylophone, bell tree, chimes, 2 vibraphones, 2 low-A marimbas, 1 low-C marimba, 4 timpani, double bass (optional), triangle, 3 suspended cymbals, windchimes, bass drum, ride cymbal, and finger cymbals (12-13 players). Difficulty: Medium-Advanced. Folio and CD-ROM. 10 pages. Duration 3:15. Published by Tapspace Publications

(from The Snow Maiden). Composed by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908). Arranged by Lewis Norfleet. Percussion Ensemble. For glockenspiel, xylophone, chimes, 2 vibraphones, two 4.3-octave (low A) marimbas, two smaller 4-octave marimbas, 4 timpani, snare drum, small and large crash cymbals (pairs), bass drum, triangle, gong, tambourine. Note for larger ensembles: If there is a f (13 players). Medium-Advanced. Score and parts on CD-ROM. 18 pages. Duration 3'00 . Published by Tapspace Publications

Composed by Sam Adams. For percussion ensemble (9 players). Medium. Score and set of parts. Duration 10 minutes, 30 seconds. Published by C. Alan 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.

(arranged for percussion ensemble). Composed by Camille Saint-Sa�«ns. Arranged by Brian Slawson. Percussion Ensembles. For Xylophone, chimes, vibraphone, one 5-octave marimba (low C, shared), one 4.3-octave marimba (low A) OR 5-octave (low C), 2 timpani, and crash cymbals. (8 players). Difficulty: Medium. Folio and CD-ROM. 20 pages. Duration 3:15. Published by Tapspace Publications

(for percussion quintet). By Montgomery Hatch. Percussion Ensemble. For 3 large basketballs, 2 small basketballs, 4 handballs (5 players). Percussion Ensembles. Medium. Score and CD-ROM (containing printable parts). 12 pages. Duration 3'00 . Published by Tapspace Publications

By Metheny / Mays. Arranged by Houghton / Warrington. Percussion Ensemble. Pat Metheny Percussion Series. Latin. Level: Grade 3-4. Score and set of parts. Published by Sierra Music.

By Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904). Arranged by John R. Hearnes. Concert Ensemble. For percussion ensemble (13 players: Bells, Xylophone, (2) Vibes, (2) Marimbas (1, 4 octave, 1, 4 1/2 octave), (2) Timpani (26 , 29 ), Chimes, Snare Drum, (2) Tambourines, Claves, Bass Drum, Crash Cymbals, Mark Tree, Triangle, Wood Block, Suspended Cymbal). Florida State Solo and Ensemble List. 5. Score and parts. Duration 3:52. Published by Row-Loff Publications